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binaryduke - Posts: 360
Sierra Chart being compiled for ARM 'just' means that it will run on Windows devices with ARM processors, e.g. Surface Pro X. It does not mean that it will run on Apple Silicon machines natively. Today, you cannot easily or satisfactorily run Windows (the OS) on an Apple Silicon machine. It is possible to use the Windows ARM insider preview on a Parallels VM on these Apple devices and there is some open source activity going on - again with the ARM edition of Windows (which is insider preview only - you cannot today buy a retail license of ARM Windows). If these approaches worked well (and they are in the realms of geeky/hacking, not production) then an ARM-compiled version of Sierra Chart may run in this virtualised environment. Not a recommended approach for a critical task like trading. CrossOver is a Mac app (available for Intel and ARM Macs) which is a commercial version of the Wine project that enables some Windows applications to run on non-Windows machines. It translates calls to Windows operating system functions into the native functions of the machine upon which CrossOver (or Wine) is running. A few people here have had success using Sierra Chart with CrossOver on Apple Silicon Macs. TLDR; An ARM-compiled version of Sierra Chart has nothing to do with running Sierra Chart on Apple Silicon machines. It will be a welcome development however as: - there will be more and more ARM processor Windows devices - it is conceivable that ARM Windows will be licensable and able to be virtualised under e.g. Parallels on Apple Silicon machines and then an ARM-compiled Sierra Chart should be able to run in this virtualised environment.