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A typo in the build instructions for MacOS #6047

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I've tried to build PrusaSlicer for a new Macbook Air M1 (new "Apple silicon") and found that the first line, brew install cmake git gettext wasn't visible in the installation instructions due to a formatting error.

The instructions are valid for macOS BigSur and M1; PrusaSlicer compiles on it without error (yet there are multiple warnings). The process takes about 20 minutes and requires approx. 6Gb of disk space.

The produced binary is for a single architecture,

~ file PrusaSlicer/build/src/PrusaSlicer
PrusaSlicer/build/src/PrusaSlicer: Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64

Running it on an Intel system returns bad CPU type in executable: PrusaSlicer. Build scripts need to be updated to produce a universal binary for x86_64 and arm64e.

Slicing is twice faster on M1 compared to Intel's Core i7 (I used a first complex STL file I could think of - "Bernie with mittens" from Thingiverse):

Compilation on an Apple M1

Performance on an Apple M1

Performance on Intel's i7

the line `brew install cmake git gettext` wasn't visible due to formatting error
@bubnikv bubnikv merged commit 1661db6 into prusa3d:master Feb 15, 2021
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bubnikv commented Feb 15, 2021

thanks

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