Developing on an Apple silicon Mac

[Ben Fairless]

Hi everyone,

During the period I had taken a break from working on Right to Know I upgraded my computer to a Mac with Apple Silicon (ARM).

I’m now having no end of trouble trying to set up a development environment - apparently, this is a common issue for all of the Apple silicon based MacBooks.

Does anyone have any helpful pointers on setting up a development environment on a ARM Mac? Would appreciate any guidance at all at this point.

Thanks

Ben

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Ben Fairless

OpenAustralia Foundation

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[Graeme Porteous]

Hi Ben,

We use Apple Silicon based Mac here at mySociety without any issues.

Running Alaveteli on your Mac we would recommend using the Docker
scripts which comes with the source code.

Basic high level instructions I would recommend would be:
1. Install the macOS command line tools - `xcode-select --install`
2. Install homebrew - https://brew.sh/
3. Install OrbStack/Docker - `brew install orbstack`
4. Clone Alaveteli - git clone https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli.git

You can then use our guides for running Alaveteli using Docker here:
https://alaveteli.org/docs/installing/docker/

Let me know how you get on,


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[Ben Fairless]

Thanks Graeme - Right to Know is a few versions behind (0.38.4). I’m not sure if docker is available that far back?

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[Graeme Porteous]

Yes, you're correct. Docker support got added in 0.39.

The changes between 0.38 and 0.39 are relevantly minor so the upgrade
shouldn't been hard, or you could attempt to backport the 0.39 version
of docker-compose.yml [1] and the docker directory [2] back to your
0.38.x install. I would imagine that should work fine for a
development environment.

[1] https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/blob/0.39.0.0/docker-compose.yml
[2] https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/tree/0.39.0.0/docker

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