Add Mac-OS Support with brew packaged cask version of Alpaca

[CodingKoalaGeneral]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Increase popularity by going cross platform

Describe the solution you'd like
Add Mac-OS Support with brew packaged cask version of Alpaca and or manually installable / standalone file

Describe alternatives you've considered
Add Windows Support with choco packaged version of Alpaca and or manually installable / standalone file

[Jeffser]

I have considered Mac OS before tho, I don't see anything wrong with doing it if it's easy to do, I tried for a couple of hours last week but I couldn't figure it out.

I don't have access to an actual Mac system, I have a Hackintosh but that introduces more problems

[loulou64490]

Use this app : https://github.com/AugustDev/enchanted

[frenata]

Use this app : https://github.com/AugustDev/enchanted

While it has a nice UI, this seems to require that you pipe out a local ollama server via ngrok just to access it locally....

I have considered Mac OS before tho, I don't see anything wrong with doing it if it's easy to do, I tried for a couple of hours last week but I couldn't figure it out.

I do have access to one, what were the tricky bits you ran into?

[Jeffser]

Hi, I just released an experimental version of Alpaca for MacOS, please read this wiki page.

Happy holidays btw

[CodingKoalaGeneral]

Using a .dmg file instead of Brew Cask involves additional steps.

step 4: go to settings -> security / privacy -> allow execution of alpaca -> confirm using auth

Library not loaded: @executable_path/../Python3

$ brew install python3
==> Downloading https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula.jws.json
################################################################################################# 100.0%
==> Downloading https://formulae.brew.sh/api/cask.jws.json
################################################################################################# 100.0%
Warning: [email protected] 3.13.1 is already installed and up-to-date.

crash report below

-------------------------------------
Translated Report (Full Report Below)
-------------------------------------

Process:               python3 [88953]
Path:                  /Applications/Alpaca.app/Contents/MacOS/Alpaca
Identifier:            python3
Version:               ???
Code Type:             X86-64 (Translated)
Parent Process:        launchd [1]
User ID:               501

Date/Time:             2024-12-29 18:52:32.0093 +0100
OS Version:            macOS 15.2 (24C101)
Report Version:        12
Anonymous UUID:        F5F821BC-B5B5-84A7-5588-B6BF51802510

Sleep/Wake UUID:       76EBF301-9807-41EF-911D-0BEADA8A9D6F

Time Awake Since Boot: 86000 seconds
Time Since Wake:       963 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Notes:
PC register does not match crashing frame (0x0 vs 0x202C37A84)

Crashed Thread:        0

Exception Type:        EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000

Termination Reason:    Namespace DYLD, Code 1 Library missing
Library not loaded: @executable_path/../Python3
Referenced from: <0B92D5CF-68D1-3BE2-A9C2-B4EEC7073798> /Applications/Alpaca.app/Contents/Resources/venv/bin/python3
Reason: tried: '/Applications/Alpaca.app/Contents/Resources/venv/Python3' (no such file)
(terminated at launch; ignore backtrace)

Error Formulating Crash Report:
PC register does not match crashing frame (0x0 vs 0x202C37A84)

Thread 0 Crashed:
0   Rosetta Runtime Routines	       0x202c37a84 ???
1   dyld                          	       0x202aaf47a __abort_with_payload + 10
2   dyld                          	       0x202ac7217 abort_with_payload_wrapper_internal + 82
3   dyld                          	       0x202ac7249 abort_with_payload + 9
4   dyld                          	       0x202a59701 dyld4::halt(char const*, dyld4::StructuredError const*) + 335
5   dyld                          	       0x202a56822 dyld4::prepare(dyld4::APIs&, dyld3::MachOAnalyzer const*) + 4189
6   dyld                          	       0x202a55792 dyld4::start(dyld4::KernelArgs*, void*, void*)::$_0::operator()() const + 572
7   dyld                          	       0x202a5527f start + 1727

Thread 1:: com.apple.rosetta.exceptionserver
0   runtime                       	    0x7ff7ffdbfea0 0x7ff7ffdbc000 + 16032


Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit):
  rax: 0x0000000000000006  rbx: 0x000000000000006d  rcx: 0x0000000000000001  rdx: 0x000000030921a490
  rdi: 0x0000002000000000  rsi: 0x0000000000000000  rbp: 0x0000000000000000  rsp: 0x000000030921a090
   r8: 0x000000030921a090   r9: 0x0000000000000000  r10: 0x000000000000006d  r11: 0x000000030921a090
  r12: 0x0000000000000000  r13: 0x000000030921a490  r14: 0x0000000000000006  r15: 0x000000000000006d
  rip: <unavailable>       rfl: 0x0000000000000283
 tmp0: 0xffffffffffffffff tmp1: 0x0000000202c37a58 tmp2: 0x0000000202ac7217


Binary Images:
       0x202a4f000 -        0x202adafff dyld (*) <7e2d5f84-7d4f-3322-83cb-dd7bd247f06a> /usr/lib/dyld
    0x7ff7ffdbc000 -     0x7ff7ffdebfff runtime (*) <6a360c41-1729-30a8-b7d2-055dddac0786> /usr/libexec/rosetta/runtime
       0x10a6d3000 -        0x10a73afff libRosettaRuntime (*) <4cb71c5f-4e41-3ce6-a65a-b283bc4bfab5> /Library/Apple/*/libRosettaRuntime
       0x1026b5000 -        0x1026b6fff python3 (*) <0b92d5cf-68d1-3be2-a9c2-b4eec7073798> /Applications/Alpaca.app/Contents/Resources/venv/bin/python3
               0x0 - 0xffffffffffffffff ??? (*) <00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000> ???

External Modification Summary:
  Calls made by other processes targeting this process:
    task_for_pid: 0
    thread_create: 0
    thread_set_state: 0
  Calls made by this process:
    task_for_pid: 0
    thread_create: 0
    thread_set_state: 0
  Calls made by all processes on this machine:
    task_for_pid: 0
    thread_create: 0
    thread_set_state: 0

VM Region Summary:
ReadOnly portion of Libraries: Total=1532K resident=0K(0%) swapped_out_or_unallocated=1532K(100%)
Writable regions: Total=166.0M written=177K(0%) resident=177K(0%) swapped_out=0K(0%) unallocated=165.9M(100%)

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Rosetta Thread Context              20K        2 
Stack                             8176K        1 
Stack Guard                       56.0M        1 
VM_ALLOCATE                          4K        1 
VM_ALLOCATE (reserved)               8K        2         reserved VM address space (unallocated)
__DATA                              96K        6 
__DATA_CONST                        28K        2 
__DATA_DIRTY                         8K        2 
__LINKEDIT                         400K        8 
__TEXT                            1176K        4 
__TPRO_CONST                       276K        1 
mapped file                       1160K        7 
page table in kernel               177K        1 
===========                     =======  ======= 
TOTAL                            200.2M      273 
TOTAL, minus reserved VM space   200.2M      273 



-----------
Full Report
-----------

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Model: Mac15,3, BootROM 11881.61.3, proc 8:4:4 processors, 8 GB, SMC 
Graphics: Apple M3, Apple M3, Built-In
Display: Color LCD, 3024 x 1964 Retina, Main, MirrorOff, Online
Memory Module: LPDDR5, Micron
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Thunderbolt Bus: MacBook Pro, Apple Inc.

[SolarisEclipse]

For whatever reason this is trying to load the python library from /Volumes/Alpaca/Alpaca.app/Contents/Resources/venv/Python3
instead of /Volumes/Alpaca/Alpaca.app/Contents/Resources/venv/bin/python3

Is this just a typo in the code somewhere?

dyld[59270]: Library not loaded: @executable_path/../Python3
  Referenced from: <0B92D5CF-68D1-3BE2-A9C2-B4EEC7073798> /Volumes/Alpaca/Alpaca.app/Contents/Resources/venv/bin/python3
  Reason: tried: '/Volumes/Alpaca/Alpaca.app/Contents/Resources/venv/Python3' (no such file)
zsh: abort      /Volumes/Alpaca/Alpaca.app/Contents/MacOS/Alpaca

[SolarisEclipse]

If y'all want parsec access to a real Mac I don't mind contributing that.

[SolarisEclipse]

As you can see there really is no existing file there.