Please publish macOS Arm (or Universal 2) binaries

[aivarannamaa]

It looks like GitHub Actions is ready for this: https://github.blog/changelog/2024-01-30-github-actions-introducing-the-new-m1-macos-runner-available-to-open-source/

[petasis]

If only I new how to integrate github actions :-)

[Squiblydoo]

Hi @petasis !
I am the new maintainer of tkinterdnd2 which uses your binaries and I saw that this is a common request.
I saw this thread this morning and didn't know how to use GitHub actions, but I found that it is fairly simple. I was able to fork your repository and successfully build for macOS ARM due to your helpful discussion here: #54

To make a GitHub action for compiling ARM binaries, do the following:

1. Create a tcl-conf with the changes that you had recommended in the Issue I mentioned above. I have done that in my fork, and the result can be viewed here: https://github.com/Squiblydoo/tkdnd/blob/master/tcl-conf-arm
2. Click "Actions" at the top of the repository.
3. Use the template for CMake based, multi-platform projects
4. Use the following workflow:

name: Build

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master

jobs:
  release:
    runs-on: macos-14

    steps:
      - name: check out git repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        
      - name: build
        run: |
          brew reinstall tcl-tk
          export PATH="/usr/local/opt/tcl-tk/bin:$PATH"
          export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/tcl-tk/lib"
          export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/tcl-tk/include"
          export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/opt/tcl-tk/lib/pkgconfig"
          tclsh tcl-conf-arm
          make install arch=arm64
          
      - name: upload
        uses: actions/[email protected]
        with:
          name: arm64
          path: cmake/runtime/lib/tkdnd2.9.4

This workflow will compile the arm binaries and return the binary below.

EDIT: I updated the workflow file to resolve the warnings in the image.

[petasis]

I have updated the AppVeyor CI workflow, to build macOS binaries for Sonoma (both x86_64 and arm64) through cross-compilation, for Tcl 9.0.1 (Homebrew).

Can you please verify that these binaries work? I have no access to any apple hardware to test them.

You can find the binaries at TkDND Github Releases (2.9.5). https://github.com/petasis/tkdnd/releases/tag/tkdnd-release-test-v2.9.5

[Squiblydoo]

Thank you for the recent updates and for building these binaries.

I am currently in the process of verifying that they work.
In my initial tests, neither the x64 or ARM worked, but I am trying to verify that it isn't a problem on my end and how I am testing them. I primarily use TkDND through tkinterDnD2 which ships with the TkDND binaries, so I attempted to replace the binaries with the newly compiled ones, but they did not get loaded properly, so I am trying to assess where the failure is.
(I will admit I am fairly ignorant on how to use TkDND without tkinterDnD2.)

[Squiblydoo]

I apologize for taking forever to respond, I finally found an intelligent way to test the binaries.

I am currently testing the macos x64 binaries. I currently receive an error with 2.9.5 that I don't experience with 2.9.4. When loading the binary I receive the error

_tkinter.TclError: interpreter uses an incompatible stubs mechanism

Did anything significant change that would impact TCL stubs?