[not bug] Installing problem in mac arm64(m1, apple silicon)

[gucheen]

not a bug but just some notice.

Since nodejs.org hasn't release a darwin-arm64 binary, fnm cannot download the target binary line https://nodejs.org/dist/latest/node-v15.6.0-darwin-arm64.tar.xz.

And also, node.js currently only support apple silicon after version v15.x, if no further updates on lower versions, some testing will be failed(like install node v12.x).

refer: nodejs/build#2474
related pr: #368

[Schniz]

Woah. what would other package managers do? install from source? That would be a waste of time for most people.

[7rulnik]

@Schniz for example, nvm will compile it from source, yeah. As I understand it's just a temporary solution. Native support was introduced in 15.3.0.

[7rulnik]

And sorry for off-topic, but can you take a look at Homebrew/homebrew-core#68301?

[gucheen]

@Schniz fallback to a x64 version of nodejs would be a choice. x64 nodejs runs well through Rosetta.
Maybe offer an option to select target arch like https://github.com/tj/n

[ole3021]

I use n currently to solve the node env management problem. but fnm is my favorite one. so hopefully there will have a solution that works for me. Thanks in advance.

[Schniz]

And sorry for off-topic, but can you take a look at Homebrew/homebrew-core#68301?

@7rulnik I will release a new version soon with #368 that should possible fix this issue. That being said, I am not sure about fnm for building from source, so I don't know how it would help. Still need to consider if we want to allow building from source, and if we do, understand how to do that 😄

[dvcrn]

Woah. what would other package managers do? install from source? That would be a waste of time for most people.

I found this problem looking for something that can help me out of slow nvm load speeds. Does this project have no option to compile from source? Another M1 user here and I quite like that NVM can just compile node when no bin is available

[Schniz]

Does this project have no option to compile from source?

Right now it does not. I would consider accepting a contribution that adds this feature (it feels like a massive maintaining burden, but maybe I'm afraid for nothing). Anyway, in my current workflow, I don't find myself in need of compiling for source, and it does not sound very interesting to build, so I don't see myself building it.

If someone wants to chime in and make fnm optionally build from source, let me know!

[gucheen]

https://github.com/nodenv/node-build
Currently I use node-build to build node v15.x on my MacBook m1.
eg node-build 15.11.0 ~/.fnm/node-versions/v15.11.0/installation/ and all things work well (it takes a while to compile, though)

[Schniz]

fnm v1.24.0 now installs the x64 version which Rosetta can run. 😃

[7rulnik]

@Schniz node 16 just released with prebuilt binaries for darwin-arm64
https://nodejs.org/dist/v16.0.0/

As I understand it can be installed via

fnm install --arch=arm64 16