Support for Apple M1 (`darwin-aarch64`)

[fniephaus]

Update from 2023/02/01:

Support for Apple Silicon has landed in the 22.1 release of GraalVM. We gradually ship more GraalVM components for darwin-aarch64 machines in new releases.

The latest state can be tested with the latest GraalVM dev build. Please help testing and report bugs!

Component	Status
Compiler	experimental
Native Image	experimental
LLVM runtime	experimental
LLVM toolchain	experimental
JavaScript	experimental
Node.js	experimental
Java on Truffle	experimental
Python	experimental
Ruby	experimental
R	planned
WebAssembly	planned
VisualVM	experimental

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Update from 2022/03/22:

Apple M1 support for @GraalVM Native Image, libgraal, JavaScript, and Espresso has landed! 🎉🚀
M1 support for Ruby has also landed now.

You can now grab a GraalVM dev build for darwin-aarch64 at: https://github.com/graalvm/graalvm-ce-dev-builds/releases/latest

Please help testing and report bugs!

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Original Issue

Describe the solution you'd like.
Apple is transitioning to their own chips. GraalVM is already available for Linux+aarch64, we'll need macOS+aarch64/arm64 at some point too.

Describe who do you think will benefit the most.
Any future macOS user.

Describe alternatives you've considered.
I can confirm that GraalVM CE 20.1.0 for macOS+amd64 runs with Rosetta 2 on a Developer Transition Kit (DTK).

Additional context.
Apple documentation on Apple Silicon. You can apply for a DTK here.

Express whether you'd like to help contributing this feature
I'm happy to help test GraalVM on a DTK. I've tried (but failed) to compile a LabsJDK for macOS+arm64 as a starting point.

[eregon]

The first step for this is to build a JVMCI JDK on darwin-arm64.

@dougxc told me the plan is to do this as soon as support is added for the darwin-arm64 platform in the JDK:
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8253795 / openjdk/jdk#2200

[chrisseaton]

Note that macOS 11 isn't part of the issue any more Graal works fine on that.

[eregon]

Internal issue: GR-27422

[eregon]

FWIW openjdk/jdk#2200 got merged, but that's for JDK 17, planned to be released on 2021/09/14 (https://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/17/).
GraalVM releases are of course based on a JDK release.
It might be backported to older JDKs, but that doesn't seem clear yet.
cc @deepj

[mutasemhidmi]

is it possible to build an image from graalvm arm64 for MacBook m1 in order to build native images. Note that I tried to do this to build a native image for Quarkus framework but it didn't work. I used this graalvm https://github.com/graalvm/container/tree/master/community in order to build my image, but eventually after running sam cli to test the lambda function I got this error msg="Init failed" InvokeID= error="fork/exec /var/task/bootstrap: no such file or directory"

[fniephaus]

I don't think that's possible. You can run native images built for macOS/AMD64 on Apple Silicon via Rosetta 2.

[mutasemhidmi]

@fniephaus I tried but the build got stuck, and I got a warning that I am using amd64 and not arm64. All the information is here
quarkusio/quarkus#16225