make binary download errors more clear for macOS Big Sur #187

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opened 2022-03-26 02:50:42 +00:00 by emidoots · 0 comments

emidoots commented

2022-03-26 02:50:42 +00:00

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on macOS Big Sur ~11.6.5 we do not offer binary downloads, so you get an error:

error: gpu-dawn binaries for aarch64-macos.11.6.5...11.6.5-gnu not available.

There are two situations here:

The user is actually on macOS Big Sur, and needs to upgrade to Monterey / macOS 12 OR add -Ddawn-from-source=true to build from source (their choice.)
OR they are cross-compiling and just specified -Dtarget=aarch64-macos and forgot to add .12 on the end.

The error message should hint at these two situations better.

on macOS Big Sur ~11.6.5 we do not offer binary downloads, so you get an error: ``` error: gpu-dawn binaries for aarch64-macos.11.6.5...11.6.5-gnu not available. ``` There are two situations here: 1. The user is actually on macOS Big Sur, and needs to upgrade to Monterey / macOS 12 OR add `-Ddawn-from-source=true` to build from source (their choice.) 2. OR they are cross-compiling and just specified `-Dtarget=aarch64-macos` and forgot to add `.12` on the end. The error message should hint at these two situations better.

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