Will there be an Apple silicon port for TyCommander? We are nearly up to M6 silicon now...

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clinker8

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I tried to use TyCommander today and got a message that after the next major OS update, Intel based code will not be supported. Ie MacOS 27.

Will there be an update to TyCommander? Anyone know? I've found TyC quite handy as the serial monitoring is definitely superior to Arduino's IDE. Or are there any decent replacements?
 
clinker8 said:
I tried to use TyCommander today and got a message that after the next major OS update, Intel based code will not be supported. Ie MacOS 27.

Will there be an update to TyCommander? Anyone know? I've found TyC quite handy as the serial monitoring is definitely superior to Arduino's IDE. Or are there any decent replacements?
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You can fairly easily compile the command line tool tycmd for apple silicon yourself. Just did it yesterday by just following the instructions on the tytools website.

I wasn't successful with the GUI apps, like tyuploader and commander. They just crashed when starting them after I compiled. I think it must be a QT problem. But either way, it's great to have a native command line tool at least :)
 
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toyosm said:
I'm using TyCommander una macbook m1 without any issues with the latest OS (Tahoe 26.3)
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It's working now. It's just OP was concerned about a system pop that's says that the future macOS version won't support Intel emulation.

The current tycommander build is still running as an Intel app.
 
anzio said:
It's working now. It's just OP was concerned about a system pop that's says that the future macOS version won't support Intel emulation.

The current tycommander build is still running as an Intel app.
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Did you use felix, the tool that Koromix made for the build? I was thinking of trying, but really didn't want to download his whole repo. Not sure if felix and tytools are truly the only dependencies , besides qt. When I get time, I'll make a build attempt. MacOS 27 will be the end of Intel support, according to Apple.

Did you get any clues on the qt errors?
 
I just cloned the repo and entered those commands, as in the documentation.

./bootstrap.sh
./felix -pFast tycmd

That worked perfectly and produced a working native apple command line app.

I also did the instructions for a static build of tyuploader and got a file without any build errors. But then I got a hard crash when I executed it.
 
anzio said:
It's working now. It's just OP was concerned about a system pop that's says that the future macOS version won't support Intel emulation.

The current tycommander build is still running as an Intel app.
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Didn't got any message when opening it. I'll be watching this thread just in case.
 
anzio said:
I just cloned the repo and entered those commands, as in the documentation.

./bootstrap.sh
./felix -pFast tycmd

That worked perfectly and produced a working native apple command line app.

I also did the instructions for a static build of tyuploader and got a file without any build errors. But then I got a hard crash when I executed it.
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Is there a reason not to try a dynamic library build? I installed qt via homebrew, does it pull in the necessary dependencies for dynamic builds, or do I need to build qt itself?

One thing I'd like to change is the font size in tycommander. I'm using a 1280x1024 screen and the text size is uncomfortably small in the application.
 
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