Bug 462744

Summary:	Will Digikam run on Apple M1 or M2 chips?
Product:	[Applications] digikam	Reporter:	Ned <ianlitton>
Component:	Bundle-MacOS	Assignee:	Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	caulier.gilles, jpwhiting, nicolas.fella, yurii.kolesnykov
Priority:	NOR
Version:	7.9.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	macOS (DMG)
OS:	macOS
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:	7.10.0
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	Already works

Description Ned 2022-12-07 16:01:10 UTC

Is it possible to run Digikam on a macbook built on the M1 or M2 chips? I need to update my macbook; currently I have an intel based macbook, but any upgrade will be based on the M1 or M2 chip. I see that requests for this have been submitted, but it isn't clear if Digikam will run on M1 or M2 chips, either natively, or with some form of virtualization. 

Many thanks.

Comment 1 Jeremy Whiting 2022-12-07 16:15:32 UTC

Created attachment 154395 [details]
Already works

Just tested the latest x86_64 pkg from https://download.kde.org/stable/digikam/7.9.0/ works like a charm here on an m1 mac mini thanks to rosetta. Should work fine.

Comment 2 Yurii Kolesnykov 2022-12-07 17:48:00 UTC

The very first thing a new owner of Apple Silicon may want to do is to install Rosetta 2 via: `softwareupdate --install-rosetta`. The anecdote of Rosetta 2 benchmarks is that some x86_64 binaries work even faster than natively on previous Intel Macs. [1]

[1]https://www.phoronix.com/review/apple-mac-m1

Comment 3 caulier.gilles 2022-12-07 18:06:25 UTC

Yes it work.

Here we have a macbook air M1 and Rosetta 2 work like a charm.

https://imgur.com/js1i36a

Best

Gilles Caulier