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Bug 5454 - sdl2_ttf make fails on macos bigsur m1
Summary: sdl2_ttf make fails on macos bigsur m1
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: SDL_ttf
Classification: Unclassified
Component: misc (show other bugs)
Version: 2.0.15
Hardware: ARM Mac OS X (All)
: P2 normal
Assignee: Sam Lantinga
QA Contact: Sam Lantinga
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Reported: 2021-01-09 11:04 UTC by nsklaus
Modified: 2021-01-09 19:01 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description nsklaus 2021-01-09 11:04:29 UTC 
Created attachment 4647 [details]
build output

sdl2_ttf make fails from macos bigsur on m1 arch:

"
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture arm64
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
make: *** [libSDL2_ttf.la] Error 1
"

i was able to build sdl2, sdl2_image, sdl2_mixer, and sdl2_ttf fails.
please see attached build output.
Comment 1 Cameron Gutman 2021-01-09 19:01:22 UTC 
It's because the included FreeType.framework binary doesn't include arm64 code. The same situation is also true for the the Windows builds of libfreetype-6.dll (only x86 and x64, no ARM64).

As a workaround, I just grabbed the latest FreeType 2.10.4 source, built for Windows x86+x64+ARM64 and macOS x86_64+ARM64, replaced the bundled binaries in the SDL_ttf source, and then built SDL_ttf. IIRC, it required a few tweaks to the build files to pick up the newer library version, but it wasn't too bad.

It would be nice to get new SDL_ttf builds for ARM64 on Windows and macOS, or at least update the prebuilt binaries in the SDL_ttf source tree to have ARM64 builds.