Plans to Support Apple Silicon builds?

Are there current plans to support Apple Silicon builds with electron-builder? We’re currently in the process of making sure our electron app is ready for ARM support, so I wanted to make sure that we’d be able to build to those targets using electron-builder.

If so, what does the release timeline look like for that?

Since https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/issues/5095 was closed with no resolution, I figured it best to open a new issue.

[mmaietta]

FWIW, I was able to build an arm64 electron example app with the help of patch-package on two files. Perhaps this will help/unblock people investigating further 🙂

I was able to package via both yarn electron-builder to use package.json and cli yarn electron-builder --dir --arm64

Unfortunately, I’m actually unable to test the app though as I don’t have a compatible MacOS version installed right now. Just to be verbose, here’s the error alert

You can’t use this version of the application “MyApp.app” with this version of macOS. You have macOS 10.15.7. The application requires macOS 11.0 or later.

Maybe someone would be willing to test this? 😉

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Here are the changes I made:

package.json excerpt:

"build": {
    "appId": "test",
    "mac": {
      "target" : { "target": "dir", "arch": "arm64" }
    }
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "electron": "11.0.0-beta.20",
    "electron-builder": "^22.9.1"
  },

Patch 1: app-builder-lib+22.9.1.patch

diff --git a/node_modules/app-builder-lib/out/macPackager.js b/node_modules/app-builder-lib/out/macPackager.js
index 4825f78..2aa682b 100644
--- a/node_modules/app-builder-lib/out/macPackager.js
+++ b/node_modules/app-builder-lib/out/macPackager.js
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ class MacPackager extends _platformPackager().PlatformPackager {
 
     if (!hasMas || targets.length > 1) {
       const appPath = prepackaged == null ? path.join(this.computeAppOutDir(outDir, arch), `${this.appInfo.productFilename}.app`) : prepackaged;
-      nonMasPromise = (prepackaged ? Promise.resolve() : this.doPack(outDir, path.dirname(appPath), this.platform.nodeName, arch, this.platformSpecificBuildOptions, targets)).then(() => this.packageInDistributableFormat(appPath, _builderUtil().Arch.x64, targets, taskManager));
+      nonMasPromise = (prepackaged ? Promise.resolve() : this.doPack(outDir, path.dirname(appPath), this.platform.nodeName, arch, this.platformSpecificBuildOptions, targets)).then(() => this.packageInDistributableFormat(appPath, arch, targets, taskManager));
     }
 
     for (const target of targets) {

Patch 2: electron-builder+22.9.1.patch

diff --git a/node_modules/electron-builder/out/builder.js b/node_modules/electron-builder/out/builder.js
index 59383a1..8b9aef7 100644
--- a/node_modules/electron-builder/out/builder.js
+++ b/node_modules/electron-builder/out/builder.js
@@ -69,10 +69,6 @@ function normalizeOptions(args) {
 
   function processTargets(platform, types) {
     function commonArch(currentIfNotSpecified) {
-      if (platform === _appBuilderLib().Platform.MAC) {
-        return args.x64 || currentIfNotSpecified ? [_builderUtil().Arch.x64] : [];
-      }
-
       const result = Array();
 
       if (args.x64) {
@@ -242,7 +238,7 @@ function createTargets(platforms, type, arch) {
   const targets = new Map();
 
   for (const platform of platforms) {
-    const archs = platform === _appBuilderLib().Platform.MAC ? [_builderUtil().Arch.x64] : arch === "all" ? [_builderUtil().Arch.x64, _builderUtil().Arch.ia32] : [(0, _builderUtil().archFromString)(arch == null ? process.arch : arch)];
+    const archs = arch === "all" && platform !== _appBuilderLib().Platform.MAC ? [_builderUtil().Arch.x64, _builderUtil().Arch.ia32] : [(0, _builderUtil().archFromString)(arch == null ? process.arch : arch)];
     const archToType = new Map();
     targets.set(platform, archToType);
 

[ahmadwaliesipick]

any update on this?