Local 9.0.4: PHP library architecture errors on Apple Silicon

[peter_vukovic]

Update:

The issue was caused by multiple problems:

1. I had an x86 binary of Local installed, and for some reason, it was working and updating itself properly even though I am on Apple Silicon. I replaced it with an ARM64 binary from the releases page.

2. I had PHP versions installed by both Homebrew and Laravel Herd. Had to uninstall them all to get Local shell to work properly.

This post was extremely helpful:

M1 Mac loading X86 libraries - local lightning (opcache, xdebug, imagick)

Thanks for sharing your shell output, @sebastian. Just to make sure I downloaded the latest version for apple silicon. (Maybe I downloaded the wrong version at some point?) Downloading the Intel version of Local, running it on an Apple Silicon Mac, then later installing the Apple Silicon version could explain the messages you have about x86_64 versions of PHP extensions such as opcache.so and xdebug.so. Those versions would have been installed by the original Intel version of Local and could…