Bee does not compile on Apple Silicon/M1 (dev branch)

[Adam-Gleave]

Issue

Currently, Bee does not compile on the Apple Silicon platform, because of the issue in rocksdb documented here. There are some preprocessor directives in the C++ code that don't accurately recognise the platform.

That issue has been closed, and a patch merged to the master branch , but it has not officially been released yet, and so the Rust crate rust-rocksdb has not been updated yet to reflect the fix.

(Temporary) Workaround

I have found a workaround that uses a personal fork of the rust-rocksdb repository that contains a temporary fix until there is an official release. That fork is here.

The rust-rocksdb dependency can be overridden with this fork, and everything seems to build fine. To do this, add the following patch to the Cargo.toml file in the root of the Bee workspace:

[patch.crates-io]
rocksdb = { git = "https://github.com/hdevalence/rust-rocksdb", branch = "master" }

This isn't the best solution long-term – the issue thread on rust-rocksdb here should keep us up-to-date on when the crate gets updated to the fixed version.