# Apple Silicon 3D Slicer Build

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**Created:** [September 22, 2025, 10:46pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/apple-silicon-3d-slicer-build/44552 "2025-09-22T22:46:41Z")\
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> [@Build 3D Slicer for MacOS arm64?](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/build-3d-slicer-for-macos-arm64/35699/7):
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> @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:

> <https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/6811>
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> This is meta issues aiming to organize the sub-tasks associated with arm64 suppo…rt. See Sub-issues listed below.
> 
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> Related issues and pull requests:
> \* https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/5944
> \* https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/6705
> \* https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/6490
> \* https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/pull/8097
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> Related discourse posts:
> \* https://discourse.slicer.org/t/issues-running-slicer-on-macbook-m1-max/23974/3
> \* https://discourse.slicer.org/t/slicer-quit-unexpectedly-on-macbook-with-m1-chip/25989
> \* https://discourse.slicer.org/t/build-arm-32-openssl/31204
> \* https://discourse.slicer.org/t/developing-for-slicer-on-apple-silicon-build-targeting-x86-64/40686

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