Problem with libssl on arm64 devices

[andjsch]

The formuale has some problem on arm64 (M-Chips) on macOS. It won't use the libssl installed by Homebrew. If you link to it, it says that it wants a different architecture, x86_64 instead of the installed arm64.

This is the error when running mint after symlinking manually to libssl:

dyld[16130]: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/openssl@1.1/lib/libssl.1.1.dylib
  Referenced from: <75F1BB04-1DDA-3A98-BEEB-CB460C23A096> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/mint-lang/0.18.0/bin/mint
  Reason: tried: '/usr/local/opt/openssl@1.1/lib/libssl.1.1.dylib' (mach-o file, but is an incompatible architecture (have 'arm64', need 'x86_64')), '/System/Volumes/Preboot/Cryptexes/OS/usr/local/opt/openssl@1.1/lib/libssl.1.1.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/local/opt/openssl@1.1/lib/libssl.1.1.dylib' (mach-o file, but is an incompatible architecture (have 'arm64', need 'x86_64')), '/usr/local/lib/libssl.1.1.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/lib/libssl.1.1.dylib' (no such file, not in dyld cache), '/opt/homebrew/Cellar/openssl@1.1/1.1.1t/lib/libssl.1.1.dylib' (mach-o file, but is an incompatible architecture (have 'arm64', need 'x86_64')), '/System/Volumes/Preboot/Cryptexes/OS/opt/homebrew/Cellar/openssl@1.1/1.1.1t/lib/libssl.1.1.dylib' (no such file), '/opt/homebrew/Cellar/openssl@1.1/1.1.1t/lib/libssl.1.1.dylib' (mach-o file, but is an incompatible architecture (have 'arm64', need 'x86_64')), '/usr/local/lib/libssl.1.1.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/lib/libssl.1.1.dylib' (no such file, not in dyld cache)
[1]    16130 abort      mint

[andjsch]

Looking at the formulae, it doesn't seem to account for arm64 at all which is most likely the problem.

[jansul]

Currently it's a bit of a pain to build ARM binaries of Mint as sort of described in this article:

Building for ARM in GitHub Actions is not easy now. You can’t just add an ARM runner because the crystal-lang/install-crystal GitHub Action doesn’t support ARM runners (at least in v1.8.0). Also, you can’t build a binary inside a container as ARM containers weren’t provided by Crystal’s developers. So, the only current option is cross-compilation.

I believe it works fine if you are able to compile from source, otherwise it would require a bit of effort for someone to update the main Mint Github workflows to cross-compile for ARM (?)