XAMPP on M1

[manngo]

Does XAMPP run natively on Apple’s M1 Silicon? If not, is it on the books?

[JDLH]

Hello, manngo:

Does XAMPP run natively on Apple’s M1 Silicon?

There are two forms of "XAMPP" for macOS: the native installer, and the virtual machine installer. Read about them at the XAMPP for OS X FAQ, and the XAMPP for OS X (VM) FAQ.

I am guessing that you are asking about the native installer. This installs MariaDB, Apache web server, PHP, and FTP as macOS apps directly on your mac machine. Yes, the XAMPP which that installs does work on Apple's Apple Silicon M1 CPU. I am using it on an M1 Max CPU.

If you are asking about the virtual machine installer, the XAMPP which it installs does not work on Apple Silicon CPUs, only on intel CPUs.

If not, is it on the books?

I have no information about when the VM system will work on Apple Silicon CPUs, sorry.

There is a little more information on the forum thread, Clarification on macOS VM, and nonsupport for M1 CPUs.

[manngo]

I was more interested in the non-VM version as it’s easier to work with.

I installed XAMMP on my machine but I find that it is not a Native application. Both the installer application and the installed application manager appear to be Intel applications, according to the Activity Monitor and a very handy utility called Silicon Info. I can only assume that Apache and MariaDB as well as PHP must be Intel as well, though I can’t get any information on that.

They do run, presumably thanks to Rosetta. I was wondering about a fully native version. I’m looking into MAMP which does claim to run natively.

[JDLH]

I installed XAMMP on my machine but I find that it is not a Native application. Both the installer application and the installed application manager appear to be Intel applications, according to the Activity Monitor and a very handy utility called Silicon Info. I can only assume that Apache and MariaDB as well as PHP must be Intel as well,….

I don't have definitive information about the CPU target of the PHP, Apache, and MariaDB which XAMPP installs, but I don't know of anything which contradicts your assumption that they are compiled for intel architectures, and run on Apple Silicon architectures thanks to macOS's Rosetta system.