graphql-engine/server/COMPILING-ON-M1.md

Compile a native arm64 graphql-engine executable on M1 using brew and ghc-8.10.7

1. Install ghc-8.10.7 and cabal-install via ghcup

2. Install dependencies:

   brew install google-cloud-sdk
   brew install node@14
   brew install openssl
   brew install pcre
   brew install unixodbc
   brew install libpq
   brew install mysql-client@5.7
   brew install libffi
   brew install llvm@11
   

   And add them to your environment:

   echo 'export PATH="/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/google-cloud-sdk/latest/google-cloud-sdk/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
   echo 'export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/openssl@1.1/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
   echo 'export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/node@14/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
   echo 'export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/mysql-client@5.7/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
   echo 'export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/libpq/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
   echo 'export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/llvm@11/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
   

3. Install console assets

   cd console
   npm ci
   npm run server-build
   cd ..
   

4. Install python

   export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/libffi/lib/pkgconfig"
   export LDFLAGS="-L/opt/homebrew/opt/openssl@1.1/lib"
   
   cd server
   python3 -m venv .python-venv
   source .python-venv/bin/activate
   pip3 install -r tests-py/requirements.txt
   (cd tests-py/remote_schemas/nodejs && npm ci)
   

5. Add the C dependencies in the cabal.project.dev-sh.local and cabal.project.local files (according to where the dependencies were installed by homebrew):

   package mysql
     extra-include-dirs:
       /opt/homebrew/opt/openssl/include
       /opt/homebrew/opt/mysql-client@5.7/include
     extra-lib-dirs:
       /opt/homebrew/opt/openssl/lib
       /opt/homebrew/opt/mysql-client@5.7/lib
   
   package odbc
     extra-include-dirs: /opt/homebrew/opt/unixodbc/include
     extra-lib-dirs: /opt/homebrew/opt/unixodbc/lib
   
   package pcre-light
     extra-include-dirs: /opt/homebrew/opt/pcre/include
     extra-lib-dirs: /opt/homebrew/opt/pcre/lib
   
   package postgresql-libpq
     extra-include-dirs:
       /opt/homebrew/opt/libpq/include
       /opt/homebrew/opt/openssl/include
     extra-lib-dirs:
       /opt/homebrew/opt/libpq/lib
       /opt/homebrew/opt/openssl/lib
   
   package pg-client
     extra-include-dirs:
       /opt/homebrew/opt/libpq/include
       /opt/homebrew/opt/openssl/include
     extra-lib-dirs:
       /opt/homebrew/opt/libpq/lib
       /opt/homebrew/opt/openssl/lib
   

   Note: If you don't have special requirements of a cabal.project.local you can just add a symbolic link to cabal.project.dev-sh.local:

   ln -s cabal.project.dev-sh.local cabal.project.local
   

6. Building the server should now work:

   cabal v2-update
   cabal v2-build graphql-engine -j4