[Rd] Using cairo on arm64 macOS

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 16/03/2022 8:38 a.m., Jan Netík wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> first, let me appreciate the efforts around "Apple Silicone" builds of R,
> works like a charm! However, I have found recently that this build does not
> have cairo in capabilities() and in turn I cannot use cairo_pdf device.
> Intel build has cairo readily available, but M1 does not. I have done
> various attempts on installing cairo using brew or
> install.package("Cairo"); maybe the most preferable way is to follow
> https://mac.r-project.org/bin/, but that also failed stating "architecture
> aarch64 is not supported on os darwin20, only available architectures:
> x86_64arm64". I have also tried downloading cairo from
> https://mac.r-project.org/bin/darwin20/arm64/ and copying it into
> opt/R/arm64, but with no success... Nor current devel R worked for me in
> that issue.
> 
> I think that I overlooked something, maybe around installing cairo to
> opts/R/arm64 (is it really mere copying?). In that case I would edit the
> docs and websites around the Apple Silicone build to better clarify what
> needs to be done, but I may be that cairo is just not yet supported.
> 
> Anyway many thank for looking into this!

This question probably belongs in R-Sig-Mac rather than here.  If you 
don't get a useful answer here, I'd re-post it there.

Duncan Murdoch