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Ncard00 Send message Joined: 7 Sep 24 Posts: 7 Credit: 821,000 RAC: 1	Message 10323 - Posted: 1 Jan 2025, 16:53:16 UTC
	When will this project support MacOS devices, either Intel or Apple Silicon Macs, of both?
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rebirther Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 2 Jan 13 Posts: 7930 Credit: 44,538,964 RAC: 137	Message 10324 - Posted: 1 Jan 2025, 17:06:01 UTC - in response to Message 10323.
	When will this project support MacOS devices, either Intel or Apple Silicon Macs, of both? Are you related to TF or prst apps?
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Ncard00 Send message Joined: 7 Sep 24 Posts: 7 Credit: 821,000 RAC: 1	Message 10329 - Posted: 2 Jan 2025, 16:26:07 UTC - in response to Message 10324.
	What is TF or prst apps?
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rebirther Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 2 Jan 13 Posts: 7930 Credit: 44,538,964 RAC: 137	Message 10331 - Posted: 2 Jan 2025, 16:28:48 UTC - in response to Message 10329. Last modified: 2 Jan 2025, 16:34:27 UTC
	What is TF or prst apps? TF = Trial Factoring with GPU prst is for CPUs In the past we have tried to asked someone to compile a mac app, most of them switched from mac to windows, no luck.
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rebirther Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 2 Jan 13 Posts: 7930 Credit: 44,538,964 RAC: 137	Message 10334 - Posted: 3 Jan 2025, 18:01:16 UTC
	mfaktc has a mac app but we need our boinc wrapper compiled for mac. Also prst with our source code need to be compiled for mac too, we cannot use the latest app. If someone can compile it let me know.
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Ncard00 Send message Joined: 7 Sep 24 Posts: 7 Credit: 821,000 RAC: 1	Message 10794 - Posted: 12 Jun 2025, 21:27:54 UTC - in response to Message 10334.
	Hi, I have no idea how to port this, but you could consider making a donation goal for people to fund, asking for the money to hire someone to do that work, compiiling a Mac version of the BOINC wrapper, so Apple Silicon Macs can work on the project, or just, since most of the applications support Intel Macs, making Apple Silicon work by running the WU's through Rosetta 2. What do you think of this idea? :)
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rebirther Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 2 Jan 13 Posts: 7930 Credit: 44,538,964 RAC: 137	Message 10796 - Posted: 13 Jun 2025, 4:17:52 UTC - in response to Message 10794.
	We already have a native mac app for prst running with an installed rosetta app on Mx chips.
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Ncard00 Send message Joined: 7 Sep 24 Posts: 7 Credit: 821,000 RAC: 1	Message 10798 - Posted: 15 Jun 2025, 16:36:58 UTC - in response to Message 10796.
	Ok, but I am still no getting any works units on my base M4 Mac Mini, neither native, through Rosetta 2, nor even in a Windows virtual machine through Parallels. For the Parallels issue, this is because It is installing an x86 version of BOINC, which SRBase does not support, so there is no way at all to run this project on Apple Silicon Macs currently.
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rebirther Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 2 Jan 13 Posts: 7930 Credit: 44,538,964 RAC: 137	Message 10799 - Posted: 15 Jun 2025, 17:10:19 UTC - in response to Message 10798.
	yes, only on 64bit. What is your OS based on? Maybe too old to run.
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sjmielh Send message Joined: 24 Dec 22 Posts: 1 Credit: 370,380 RAC: 3,920	Message 10953 - Posted: 17 Aug 2025, 9:28:43 UTC - in response to Message 10334.
	mfaktc has a mac app but we need our boinc wrapper compiled for mac. Also prst with our source code need to be compiled for mac too, we cannot use the latest app. If someone can compile it let me know. You can try contacting Dotsch. He helped with porting boinc apps to macos in the past. Maybe he is willing to help. Sjmielh
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rebirther Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 2 Jan 13 Posts: 7930 Credit: 44,538,964 RAC: 137	Message 10955 - Posted: 17 Aug 2025, 9:40:49 UTC - in response to Message 10953.
	mfaktc has a mac app but we need our boinc wrapper compiled for mac. Also prst with our source code need to be compiled for mac too, we cannot use the latest app. If someone can compile it let me know. You can try contacting Dotsch. He helped with porting boinc apps to macos in the past. Maybe he is willing to help. Sjmielh mac app for GPU is not planned.
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