Failed to compile on M1 Mac

[plavin]

When installing TikzPictures.jl, this package fails to build. Below is the (slightly abridged) output from import Pkg; Pkg.precompile(). I'm on a 2020 M1 MacBook Air running macOS 11.4 Big Sur.

I was able to install tectonic separately using homebrew, so perhaps there is a way for this project to support it without too much effort.

ERROR: LoadError: Failed to precompile Tectonic [9ac5f52a-99c6-489f-af81-462ef484790f] to /Users/plavin3/.julia/compiled/v1.7/Tectonic/jl_hxNb1w.
Stacktrace:
  [1] error(s::String)
    @ Base ./error.jl:33
  [2] compilecache(pkg::Base.PkgId, path::String, internal_stderr::IO, internal_stdout::IO, ignore_loaded_modules::Bool)
    @ Base ./loading.jl:1466
  [3] compilecache(pkg::Base.PkgId, path::String)
    @ Base ./loading.jl:1410
  [4] _require(pkg::Base.PkgId)
    @ Base ./loading.jl:1120
  [5] require(uuidkey::Base.PkgId)
    @ Base ./loading.jl:1013
  [6] require(into::Module, mod::Symbol)
    @ Base ./loading.jl:997
  [7] include
    @ ./Base.jl:418 [inlined]
  [8] include_package_for_output(pkg::Base.PkgId, input::String, depot_path::Vector{String}, dl_load_path::Vector{String}, load_path::Vector{String}, concrete_deps::Vector{Pair{Base.PkgId, UInt64}}, source::Nothing)
    @ Base ./loading.jl:1318
  [9] top-level scope
    @ none:1
 [10] eval
    @ ./boot.jl:373 [inlined]
 [11] eval(x::Expr)
    @ Base.MainInclude ./client.jl:453
 [12] top-level scope
    @ none:1
in expression starting at /Users/plavin3/.julia/packages/TikzPictures/Kichj/src/TikzPictures.jl:1

Tectonic [9ac5f52a-99c6-489f-af81-462ef484790f]

Failed to precompile Tectonic [9ac5f52a-99c6-489f-af81-462ef484790f] to /Users/plavin3/.julia/compiled/v1.7/Tectonic/jl_BmOu0i.
ERROR: LoadError: Cannot locate artifact 'tectonic_bin' for aarch64-apple-darwin-libgfortran5-cxx11-julia_version+1.7.1 in '/Users/plavin3/.julia/packages/Tectonic/IR51S/Artifacts.toml'
Stacktrace:
  [1] error(s::String)
    @ Base ./error.jl:33
  [2] artifact_slash_lookup(name::String, artifact_dict::Dict{String, Any}, artifacts_toml::String, platform::Base.BinaryPlatforms.Platform)
    @ Artifacts /Applications/Julia-1.7.app/Contents/Resources/julia/share/julia/stdlib/v1.7/Artifacts/src/Artifacts.jl:608
  [3] var"@artifact_str"(__source__::LineNumberNode, __module__::Module, name::Any, platform::Nothing)
    @ Artifacts /Applications/Julia-1.7.app/Contents/Resources/julia/share/julia/stdlib/v1.7/Artifacts/src/Artifacts.jl:678
  [4] var"@artifact_str"(__source__::LineNumberNode, __module__::Module, name::Any)
    @ Artifacts /Applications/Julia-1.7.app/Contents/Resources/julia/share/julia/stdlib/v1.7/Artifacts/src/Artifacts.jl:641
  [5] include
    @ ./Base.jl:418 [inlined]
  [6] include_package_for_output(pkg::Base.PkgId, input::String, depot_path::Vector{String}, dl_load_path::Vector{String}, load_path::Vector{String}, concrete_deps::Vector{Pair{Base.PkgId, UInt64}}, source::Nothing)
    @ Base ./loading.jl:1318
  [7] top-level scope
    @ none:1
  [8] eval
    @ ./boot.jl:373 [inlined]
  [9] eval(x::Expr)
    @ Base.MainInclude ./client.jl:453
 [10] top-level scope
    @ none:1
in expression starting at /Users/plavin3/.julia/packages/Tectonic/IR51S/src/Tectonic.jl:35
in expression starting at /Users/plavin3/.julia/packages/Tectonic/IR51S/src/Tectonic.jl:1

Stacktrace:
 [1] pkgerror(msg::String)
   @ Pkg.Types /Applications/Julia-1.7.app/Contents/Resources/julia/share/julia/stdlib/v1.7/Pkg/src/Types.jl:68
 [2] precompile(ctx::Pkg.Types.Context; internal_call::Bool, strict::Bool, warn_loaded::Bool, already_instantiated::Bool, kwargs::Base.Pairs{Symbol, Union{}, Tuple{}, NamedTuple{(), Tuple{}}})
   @ Pkg.API /Applications/Julia-1.7.app/Contents/Resources/julia/share/julia/stdlib/v1.7/Pkg/src/API.jl:1362
 [3] precompile
   @ /Applications/Julia-1.7.app/Contents/Resources/julia/share/julia/stdlib/v1.7/Pkg/src/API.jl:1013 [inlined]
 [4] #precompile#220
   @ /Applications/Julia-1.7.app/Contents/Resources/julia/share/julia/stdlib/v1.7/Pkg/src/API.jl:1011 [inlined]
 [5] precompile()
   @ Pkg.API /Applications/Julia-1.7.app/Contents/Resources/julia/share/julia/stdlib/v1.7/Pkg/src/API.jl:1011
 [6] top-level scope
   @ REPL[7]:1

[Malte311]

I have the same issue with a M1 Pro chip (2021 MacBook Pro) running macOS 12.1 Monterey.

[MichaelHatherly]

I assume this is with the https://julialang-s3.julialang.org/bin/mac/aarch64/1.7/julia-1.7.1-macaarch64.dmg binary right? Until upstream starts building a native M1 binary for tectonic you'll need to be using the Intel/Rosetta julia binary unfortunately, which I'm pretty sure should work fine on an M1.

[jpfairbanks]

This is still an issue on julia 1.8. What needs to get fixed upstream?

[jpfairbanks]

I was also able to build tectonic on M1 via homebrew. Would it be possible to have Tectonic.jl use a homebrew installed version of Tectonic until upstream is fixed?

[MichaelHatherly]

There is a https://github.com/JuliaBinaryWrappers/tectonic_jll.jl now, which does have a macOS ARM build, so you may want to directly use that one for the time being.

Tectonic.jl also bundles a biber binary with it, which I've not yet got around to looking into apple silicon support, hence why I'm not yet just pulling in tectonic_jll for the tectonic binary.

[kleinschmidt]

There is a biber universal binary download (on sourceforge though): https://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex-biber/files/biblatex-biber/current/binaries/MacOS/biber-darwin_universal.tar.gz/download so it may be jll wrappable...

[ararslan]

It appears biber supports macOS ARM natively: https://github.com/plk/biber/blob/dev/dist/darwin_arm64/build.sh. The build scripts for the various platforms look simple enough if someone wanted to contribute biber to Yggdrasil. Could be worth opening an issue there.

[kleinschmidt]

I'll do that! We'd love to be able to use Tectonic.jl on our M1 macs...

[iabraham]

Any progress on this issue?

[MichaelHatherly]

Just blocked on JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil#5633 and someone with the time/need for this on that arch.

[nskh]

Hello, are there any updates on this issue? There's a plotting module I'd like to use that requires PGFPlots which calls out to Tectonic, but this dependency is blocking me. Thanks!

[MichaelHatherly]

If you don't need biber support then use the JLL version instead.