Apple Silicon 3D Slicer Build

[jfbasquiat]

Hi All - I’m having some difficulty locating the Apple Silicon build of 3D Slicer for macOS Tahoe. Could someone kindly point me in the right direction? (I’ve searched extensively, but all I could find was a build for antiquated Intel Macs.) Thanks in advance!

[jamesobutler (James Butler)]

Build 3D Slicer for MacOS arm64?

@GeneRisi There are some various scripts around that people have tried to build Slicer from source to build a ARM64 variant, but nothing official yet such as Slicer preview build of such a version. The below issue is still in progress and various Slicer developers have been actively working on a long chain of dependency updates including Qt5 → Qt6 that is part of bringing in ARM64 support across all the various libraries that Slicer uses. It is currently being worked on and I expect it to conti…

Short answer is that the work required to update all the dependencies to support native ARM64 builds is actively in progress and we hope to have a native ARM64 build on the macOS platform soon (as well as ARM64 builds for Linux and Windows). For now Slicer is only available to be run through Rosetta 2 on Apple Silicon macs.

Below is the following issue tracking the work towards this effort:

Support for building/testing/packaging Slicer on Apple arm64