[Scilab-users] Native arm64 build for Mac M1

[Stéphane Mottelet]

Hello,

A native arm64 build for Mac M1 machines is now available at

https://www.utc.fr/~mottelet/scilab_for_macOS.html

The Intel build was already working on these machines but if you 
experienced a relative slowness, the native build will be much faster. 
However, the new hardware features of these machines are still not fully 
used. The Apple Accelerate Framework which uses all Intel features is 
still in its infancy on M1 architecture and I had to switch to OpenBLAS 
for this particular build in order to recover the performances of the 
Intel build on Intel machines. In addition, be warned that the Atoms 
packages using C/C++ gateways won't work until authors update them to 
include both x86_64 and arm64 libraries. Hopefully the compilation of 
gateways works quite smoothly (C/C++ examples of ilib_build do work) .

So, if you have a M1 Mac and are a Scilab user please give this native 
build a try and report eventual success or problems here on the mailing 
list.

Best,

-- 
Stéphane Mottelet
Ingénieur de recherche
EA 4297 Transformations Intégrées de la Matière Renouvelable
Département Génie des Procédés Industriels
Sorbonne Universités - Université de Technologie de Compiègne
CS 60319, 60203 Compiègne cedex
Tel : +33(0)344234688
http://www.utc.fr/~mottelet