Thank you Alexander for your suggestion.
You propose to setup a complete Intel-based environment so that everything runs with Rosetta 2.
This could be a possible workaround and since I need to have an Oracle thin client as well (no arm64 release exists so far), it may worth to try it.
I've found this post on
How to install Oracle instant client on Apple silicon M1 that is based on the terminal app setting (open using Rosetta).
Still, what is puzzling me is that I have to install an x86 version of brew and wondering how this could live side by side with the arm64 version of Brew.
Your suggestion seems to bypass this requirement, have you tried it yourself? Note that pymqi is not the only package for my project, there are many modules that need to be installed, including pandas and numpy, memcached, django, celery for rabbitmq and many more. All of them runs fine in arm64, my issues are with MQ Toolkit and Oracle instant client.
Currently I'm settled with a Windows workstation and my old Macbook Pro until a proper arm64 release is available.
Struggling with workarounds doesn't justify the effort, maybe I'll try this in my free time, (so funny how this sounds :))
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Andreas Gounaris
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Original Message:
Sent: Sun February 20, 2022 08:28 AM
From: Alexander de Goeij
Subject: MacOS Toolkit release for M1 Apple silicon processor
so I had this problem too, but with the MacOS Toolkit SDK for use with `pymqi`.
My solution to that issue (in case anyone is wondering) is going to python.org and downloading the Intel-only installer for Python, install that on MacOS with M1 processor and then create a virtualenv like so:
mkvirtualenv -p /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/bin/python3 my_mqi_env_on_m1good luck :)
on this new venv do your pip install pymqi --verbose and it should compile.
see Activity Monitor to check lots of "Intel" processes doing stuff ;)
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Alexander de Goeij
Original Message:
Sent: Tue January 25, 2022 12:48 PM
From: Andreas Gounaris
Subject: MacOS Toolkit release for M1 Apple silicon processor
Thank you for answering, I guess your instructions on the client toolkit are not directed to me, can't build without the source anyway.
The toolkit apps that you find in /opt/mqm /bin and /opt/mqm/samp/bin should already run on M1 Macs but will prompt you to install Rosetta if you don't have it already.
This means I can use the binaries from version 9.2 ?
I do have Rosetta installed, however pymqi installation fails as mentioned in my first post.
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Andreas Gounaris
Original Message:
Sent: Tue January 25, 2022 07:38 AM
From: Soheel Chughtai
Subject: MacOS Toolkit release for M1 Apple silicon processor
Update of the container image and the client toolkit are fortunately unrelated.
The container image requires that the base image in use support ARM. This would apply as ARM Linux support which would satisfy running the container on Mac ARM M1.
The client toolkit requires that the ARM binaries be built with
-target arm64-apple-macos11
Once the binaries are built, the question then comes to how to package them. They could be packaged separately as ARM64 and x86_64 packages. Or they could be combined into universal MacOS binaries, but the package size would grow as they would contain both set of binaries.
The toolkit apps that you find in /opt/mqm /bin and /opt/mqm/samp/bin should already run on M1 Macs but will prompt you to install Rosetta if you don't have it already.
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Soheel Chughtai
Original Message:
Sent: Mon January 24, 2022 04:44 AM
From: Andreas Gounaris
Subject: MacOS Toolkit release for M1 Apple silicon processor
It works, thanks a lot.
I've placed my vote as well, however this suggestion concerns the Docker container which I suppose needs more work.
What I need is the client provided through MacOS Toolkit to be able to connect to the server.
Is there any alternative ?
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Andreas Gounaris
Original Message:
Sent: Mon January 24, 2022 04:36 AM
From: Morag Hughson
Subject: MacOS Toolkit release for M1 Apple silicon processor
The problem with the link provided is that it shouldn't have a full stop on the end. Try this one:-
https://integration-development.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/MESNS-I-369
Cheers,
Morag
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Morag Hughson
MQ Technical Education Specialist
MQGem Software Limited
Website: https://www.mqgem.com
Original Message:
Sent: Mon January 24, 2022 04:34 AM
From: Andreas Gounaris
Subject: MacOS Toolkit release for M1 Apple silicon processor
Thanks Brian,
the link doesn't seem to work for me, (lack of permissions?), let's hope they are aware.
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Andreas Gounaris
Original Message:
Sent: Mon January 24, 2022 02:44 AM
From: Brian S Paskin
Subject: MacOS Toolkit release for M1 Apple silicon processor
Hi, The MQ Toolkit for Mac is built for x86_64 and currently not for the ARM based Macs, but the dev team is looking to make it work in the future. You can add your voice to the suggestion: https://integration-development.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/MESNS-I-369.
Brian
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Brian S Paskin
Sr. Web Engineer
IBM Tech Garage
Original Message:
Sent: Fri January 21, 2022 01:40 AM
From: Andreas Gounaris
Subject: MacOS Toolkit release for M1 Apple silicon processor
I'm struggling getting this tool to work on Apple's M1 pro laptop using pymqi package.
During pip installation I'm getting this warning:
ld: warning: ignoring file /opt/mqm/lib64/libmqic_r.dylib, building for macOS-arm64 but attempting to link with file built for macOS-x86_64
Although the installation doesn't fail, the library fails to load due to missing symbols:
...symbol not found in flat namespace '_MQBACK'
It says that ibmqic_r.dylib is ignored.
I've heard that there is an open issue on the toolkit build to allow cross x86_64 and arm64 compatibility. Is there any scheduled release on this?
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Andreas Gounaris
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