[R-SIG-Mac] Using cairo on arm64 macOS

[Jan Netík]

OK, I can confirm than with

R version 4.1.3 Patched (2022-03-10 r81925)
Platform: aarch64-apple-darwin20 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Monterey 12.3

cairo works great now.

Thanks a lot!
Jan

pá 18. 3. 2022 v 0:18 odesílatel Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek using r-project.org>
napsal:

> Jan,
>
> thanks. Indeed, the build VM had an issue in the cairo library
> installation thus the capability was not compiled. I have fixed the issue
> by doing a full re-build of the library recipes so please get the latest
> build from
> https://mac.R-project.org/
> and let me know if it works for you (I noticed another issue with binary
> versioning where Darwin and macOS versions were swapped which is now also
> fixed). If that resolves the issue, I will re-build the 4.1.3 release and
> publish the new version.
>
> Thanks,
> Simon
>
>
>
> > On Mar 17, 2022, at 6:57 AM, Jan Netík <netikja using gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thank you for sharing. Indeed, with R 4.1.2, cairo works well. But when I
> > install the newest R 4.1.3, cairo capability is FALSE. Isn`t the cairo
> > omitted from the newest bundle?
> >
> > Best,
> > Jan
> >
> > st 16. 3. 2022 v 16:18 odesílatel Jean Thioulouse <
> > jean.thioulouse using univ-lyon1.fr> napsal:
> >
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> No problem with cairo here. I have a MacBook M1 with plain R install
> and I
> >> can use svg, cairo_pdf and cairo_ps.
> >> Maybe try to re-install R...
> >>
> >>> capabilities()
> >>       jpeg         png        tiff       tcltk         X11        aqua
> >>       TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE
> >>   http/ftp     sockets      libxml        fifo      cledit       iconv
> >>       TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE
> >>        NLS       Rprof     profmem       cairo         ICU long.double
> >>       TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE       FALSE
> >>    libcurl
> >>       TRUE
> >>> sessionInfo()
> >> R version 4.1.2 (2021-11-01)
> >> Platform: aarch64-apple-darwin20 (64-bit)
> >> Running under: macOS Monterey 12.2.1
> >>
> >> Matrix products: default
> >> BLAS:
> >>
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.1-arm64/Resources/lib/libRblas.0.dylib
> >> LAPACK:
> >>
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.1-arm64/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib
> >>
> >> Random number generation:
> >> RNG:     Mersenne-Twister
> >> Normal:  Inversion
> >> Sample:  Rounding
> >>
> >> locale:
> >> [1] fr_FR.UTF-8/fr_FR.UTF-8/fr_FR.UTF-8/C/fr_FR.UTF-8/fr_FR.UTF-8
> >>
> >> attached base packages:
> >> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> >>
> >> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> >> [1] compiler_4.1.2 tools_4.1.2
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>> Le 16 mars 2022 à 14:41, Jan Netík <netikja using gmail.com> a écrit :
> >>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> This is a repost of a topic which I have accidentally posted on r-devel
> >> mailing list:
> >>>
> >>> 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!
> >>>
> >>> Best,
> >>> Jan
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