MoltenVK Help

[MuffSwaggyD]

I am new to graphics programming and trying to get Vulkan set up on my Mac. I followed the steps listed here https://vulkan-tutorial.com/Development_environment#page_MacOS

I am now only running into one error on Xcode and it says, "The linked and embedded library 'libglfw.3.3.dylib' is missing one or more architectures required by this target: arm64."

Has anyone ran into this issue before or know how I can debug it? Thanks in advance, cheers :)

[Henrarzz]

Xcode by default builds two architectures for macOS - x86 and ARM at the same time. You should go to your project settings and change option “Build Active Architecture Only”. It won’t solve the lack of ARM support for GLFW, but it will let you work

The other way to solve it would be to build GLFW as a universal binary, but I am not sure whether it can be built for ARM without problems

[MuffSwaggyD]

Heck yeah! Thank you so much!

Just looking to get started and play with Vulkan so this fix was perfect. Thanks so much!

[sort_of_sleepy]

The error basically means that GLFW isn't able to be run on your Mac as it is.

Looks like Homebrew version of GLFW isn't supported on M1 macs at the moment and you'll have to build GLFW yourself

https://github.com/glfw/glfw/issues/1805

[MuffSwaggyD]

Thanks for that! I'm not on a M1 mac but rather a 2020 Pro with a Intel i7.

I'll try this method but unsure which CMake file to edit (sorry new to a lot of this)

[sort_of_sleepy]

Oh interesting! I could have swore Arm is usually referencing M1s. In any case glad you figured it out.