Frityet

How to install game-porting-toolkit (aka proton for macOS)

You also might wanna just use Whisky which does this automatically

This guide works on macOS 13.4+ using Command Line Tools for XCode 15 Beta!

What is this?

In the recent WWDC, Apple announced and released the "game porting toolkit", which upon further inspection this is just a modified version of CrossOver's fork of wine which is a "compatibility layer" that allows you to run Windows applications on macOS and Linux.

slavistan

This is a brief guide on how to install Archlinux as a WSL2 distribution and how to set up CUDA afterwards.

As of late, Window's WSL2 offers GPU passthrough from WSL2/Linux to Windows for NVidia graphics cards which allows to run (and develop) CUDA-based applications on the WSL2/Linux-side with almost native performance. Unfortunately, the official guides for the CUDA setup for WSL2/Linux are predominantly Ubuntu-specific. Here's to you, Arch!

1. Install Archlinux

0. Make sure that your Windows meets the dependencies and that your WSL2 is set up. See these instructions.

Archlinux is not among the default distributions available for WSL2. We'll install it from a tarball instead, a functionality offered natively by the WSL.

CombinedEffort

How to run Windows 11 on ARM in QEMU 6.1 on Apple Silicon Mac

0. Follow the excellent gist here, up to and including step 7 : https://gist.github.com/niw/e4313b9c14e968764a52375da41b4278

1. I converted my VHDX to qcow2 - I doubt if that's significant, but YMMV:

./qemu-img convert -p -O qcow2 ~/Windows11_InsiderPreview_Client_ARM64_en-us__22454-orig.VHDX Windows11.img

2. Run qemu with a slightly modified command-line. It may not be the most efficient, but it worked for me:

mike-myers-tob

Debug with GDB on macOS 11

The big reason to do this is that LLDB has no ability to "follow-fork-mode child", in other words, a multi-process target that doesn't have a single-process mode (or, a bug that only manifests when in multi-process mode) is going to be difficult or impossible to debug, especially if you have to run the target over and over in order to make the bug manifest. If you have a repeatable bug, no big deal, break on the fork from the parent process and attach to the child in a second lldb instance. Otherwise, read on.

Install GDB

Don't make the mistake of thinking you can just brew install gdb. Currently this is version 10.2 and it's mostly broken, with at least two annoying bugs as of April 29th 2021, but the big one is https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24069

$ xcode-select install  # install the XCode command-line tools

juanbrujo

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thalamus

/* 
 * This document is provided to the public domain under the 
 * terms of the Creative Commons CC0 public domain license
 */

How to boot Arch Linux ARM in QEMU (patched for M1)

Prerequisites:

QEMU - patched for M1 processors - patches: https://github.com/utmapp/qemu

tanmayb123

Minecraft on Apple Silicon

In this gist, you can find the steps to run Minecraft 1.16.4 natively on Apple Silicon (AS), without needing Rosetta 2 translation of the dependencies (mainly LWJGL and related libraries).

While it's possible to use a launcher like MultiMC to have a prettier way to run the game on AS, it requires installing even more dependencies (like QT) which take time and are difficult to distribute. Therefore, I've put together a command line-based launcher tool using a couple shell & Python scripts.

To get up and running quickly, follow the steps below. Otherwise, for more detail, watch my YouTube video.

Download my package

niw

How to run Windows 10 on ARM or Ubuntu for ARM64 in QEMU on Apple Silicon Mac

Here is easy steps to try Windows 10 on ARM or Ubuntu for ARM64 on your Apple Silicon Mac. Enjoy!

NOTE: that this is current, 10/1/2021 state.

Running Windows 10 on ARM

1. Install Xcode from App Store or install Command Line Tools on your Mac

ncwhale

# This function will automate grep CMD($1) windows and set OPACITY($2).
transparent_windows() {
for i in $(pgrep -f $1); do
  for j in $(/usr/bin/xdotool search --pid $i); do
    xprop -id $j -f _NET_WM_WINDOW_OPACITY 32c -set _NET_WM_WINDOW_OPACITY $(printf 0x%x $((0xffffffff * $2 / 100)));
  done
done
}

# Give vscode an alias.

grenade

Set-ItemProperty -path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender' -name 'DisableConfig' -type 'Dword' -value 1
Set-ItemProperty -path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender' -name 'DisableAntiSpyware' -type 'Dword' -value 1

Set-ItemProperty -path 'HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\wscsvc' -name 'Start' -type 'Dword' -value 4
Set-ItemProperty -path 'HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SecurityHealthService' -name 'Start' -type 'Dword' -value 4
Set-ItemProperty -path 'HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Sense' -name 'Start' -type 'Dword' -value 4
Set-ItemProperty -path 'HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WdBoot' -name 'Start' -type 'Dword' -value 4
Set-ItemProperty -path 'HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WdFilter' -name 'Start' -type 'Dword' -value 4
Set-ItemProperty -path 'HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WdNisDrv' -name 'Start' -type 'Dword' -value 4
Set-ItemProperty -path 'HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WdNisSvc' -name 'Start' -type 'Dword' -v