Support macOS's ARM-based M-series chips

[DamnQuan]

Support macOS's ARM-based M-series chips

[ltoenning]

We have this on our list. At first, we will release a xswiftbus version for Apple Silicon soon.
For compiling the main swift application for Apple Silicon, we are currently working to get access to the source of a required dependency. Once available, we can also release swift as ARM version.

[ltoenning]

Next steps:

• Compile dependencies for Apple Silicon as universal binaries and upload them into our Artifactory instance. This likely requires techniques presented here: https://ovaar.github.io/blog/how-to-build-macos-universal-binaries-with-conan-and-cmake/
• Build swift as universal binary on macOS
• Test installation/deployment

[DamnQuan]

May I ask how long it is expected to be completed?
I understand that many people need this problem to be solved.

[ltoenning]

May I ask how long it is expected to be completed? I understand that many people need this problem to be solved.

In our current development branch, xswiftbus already runs natively on Apple Silicon, not requiring X-Plane to run with Rosetta. We plan to do a release this month.

However, fully porting swift to Apple Silicon still takes some time.