Install Phalcon on Macbook Apple Silicon M1

[antoniolovotrico]

Hello Everybody and thx in advance for your help.
It's more than 1 week that i'm trying to install Phalcon On Macbook Apple Silicon M1 but i cannot manage to do it, and i cannot find a correct tutorial or step by step explanation.

The things i've done are:
1 : brew tap phalcon/extension https://github.com/phalcon/homebrew-tap
2 : brew install phalcon

3 : after that i copy "phalcon.so" and "psr.so" from respectively "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/phalcon@4.1.0/4.1.0" and "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/psr@74/1.0.0" and paste them to "/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20190902".

4 : finally i wrote at the end of my php.ini (located in "/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/etc") the 2 extension(extension=psr.so
extension=phalcon.so) and restart xampp apache server.

Unfortunally when i check on php info() psr and phalcon don't show up.

PS: i think it is a problem of architecture cause i follow the same steps with my old macbook air with intel chip and it works(of course in this case phalcon.so and psr.so path come frome usr/local/cellar and not from opt/homebrew/cellar like in apple m1 chip).

To help you to help me(lol) i copy also what xampp php_error_log say:

[11-May-2021 16:22:18 UTC] PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'psr.so' (tried: /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20190902/psr.so (dlopen(/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20190902/psr.so, 9): no suitable image found. Did find:
/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20190902/psr.so: mach-o, but wrong architecture
/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20190902/psr.so: mach-o, but wrong architecture), /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20190902/psr.so.so (dlopen(/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20190902/psr.so.so, 9): image not found)) in Unknown on line 0
[11-May-2021 16:22:18 UTC] PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'phalcon.so' (tried: /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20190902/phalcon.so (dlopen(/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20190902/phalcon.so, 9): no suitable image found. Did find:
/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20190902/phalcon.so: mach-o, but wrong architecture
/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20190902/phalcon.so: mach-o, but wrong architecture), /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20190902/phalcon.so.so (dlopen(/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20190902/phalcon.so.so, 9): image not found)) in Unknown on line 0
[11-May-2021 16:22:23 UTC] PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'psr.so' (tried: /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20190902/psr.so (dlopen(/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20190902/psr.so, 9): no suitable image found. Did find:
/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20190902/psr.so: mach-o, but wrong architecture
/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20190902/psr.so: mach-o, but wrong architecture), /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20190902/psr.so.so (dlopen(/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20190902/psr.so.so, 9): image not found)) in Unknown on line 0
[11-May-2021 16:22:23 UTC] PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'phalcon.so' (tried: /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20190902/phalcon.so (dlopen(/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20190902/phalcon.so, 9): no suitable image found. Did find:
/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20190902/phalcon.so: mach-o, but wrong architecture
/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20190902/phalcon.so: mach-o, but wrong architecture), /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20190902/phalcon.so.so (dlopen(/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20190902/phalcon.so.so, 9): image not found)) in Unknown on line 0
[11-May-2021 16:22:23 UTC] PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'psr.so' (tried: /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20190902/psr.so (dlopen(/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20190902/psr.so, 9): no suitable image found. Did find:
/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20190902/psr.so: mach-o, but wrong architecture
/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20190902/psr.so: mach-o, but wrong architecture), /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20190902/psr.so.so (dlopen(/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20190902/psr.so.so, 9): image not found)) in Unknown on line 0
[11-May-2021 16:22:23 UTC] PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'phalcon.so' (tried: /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20190902/phalcon.so (dlopen(/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20190902/phalcon.so, 9): no suitable image found. Did find:
/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20190902/phalcon.so: mach-o, but wrong architecture
/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20190902/phalcon.so: mach-o, but wrong architecture), /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20190902/phalcon.so.so (dlopen(/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20190902/phalcon.so.so, 9): image not found)) in Unknown on line 0.

Please Guys Help me.

Thank you so much

[Green-Cat]

I have it working just fine on an M1 Mac Mini.
You can't use binaries compiled for Intel processors on ARM ones like the M1 chip. You have to compile phalcon from scratch. Clone this repository and then use Zephir to compile it.
Also, use search next time, there is a thread on this very topic just 4 spots below yours: #15460

[antoniolovotrico]

thx for the fast answer, i've already checked that topic but i do understand nothing(my fault).
The meaning of my post is to help guys like me that have not such a big experience in programming and have bought a new mac with M1 inside.
What you said about Zephire to compile it , it's not so clear for me.
I use to install laravel without any problem but now for a new project i need to use phalcon and it is my first time with this framework.
So i really appreciate if someone can exeplain step by step what i have to do.
thx a lot