Add ARM support

[kevincerro]

The current build does not support ARM-based Macs, such as Apple Silicon Macs, without Rosetta.

macOS also shows a warning indicating that the app may stop working in a future version of macOS.

It would be great to have a native ARM64 build for macOS.

[mnapoli]

The ARM is unfortunately not great at the moment (PHP extensions are one main big thing, also I have yet to see proof that performance is better with ARM, everyone who tested did not see improvements, so did I).

In any case some bigger things may change for Bref v4 (end of year) and ARM support might be strongly improved.

And just to be sure I understand your problem exactly, can you clarify what you mean by "the build doesn't support ARM-based Macs"? Because we do publish ARM container images, it's just that they are separate images (so less practical). I just want to be sure I understand everything.

[kevincerro]

Sorry, I should have been clearer. I’m referring to the Bref Desktop app, not the Bref PHP runtime/container images.

Specifically, the macOS desktop application currently appears to be built for x86_64 only, so on Apple Silicon Macs it requires Rosetta. macOS also shows the warning that the app may stop working in a future version of macOS.

What I’m suggesting is publishing a native arm64 / Apple Silicon build of the Bref Desktop app (Electron, if I’m not mistaken), ideally alongside the existing x86_64 build or as a universal binary.

[mnapoli]

Ohh of course, my bad! I missed the repo name.

I'll look into whether that's an easy upgrade.

[mnapoli]

Thank god for Claude! Publishing on macOS is a nightmare and everything gets obsoleted so fast 😅

I have published a new version that is a universal app, so should work both on Intel and ARM! It should take a while for the app to suggest the update because it has to download it in the background first, but it should suggest the upgrade. Can you let me know if you have any issues?

(I have ran the app locally but haven't tried the automatic update yet, I'm in the train on mobile data so can't re-download the app :p)

[kevincerro]

Update received and working perfectly.
Thank you so much for all the work you’re doing. I really appreciate the time and effort you put into it.

[mnapoli]

Awesome, thank you!