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Date/Time: Thu, 06 Nov 2025 08:21:04 +0000
Sierra Chart Native on Apple
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| [2024-12-13 04:41:33] |
| GAArtAi - Posts: 9 |
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Hello Team Sierra Chart, I hope all is well with everyone! I’m currently running Sierra Chart on a Parallels virtual machine on my Mac, and it has been great so far. However, it would be absolutely amazing if Sierra Chart could run natively on an Apple platform. There are so many Mac users who would love to have this capability! Thank you for considering this, and I appreciate all the hard work your team puts into the platform. |
| [2024-12-21 20:10:37] |
| mesapeti - Posts: 4 |
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+1 Many mac users are waiting for the native macOS support. And the other hand Sierra Chart should be cloud based in the future... Cheers! Date Time Of Last Edit: 2024-12-21 20:11:43
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| [2024-12-22 00:35:02] |
| Tony - Posts: 640 |
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-1 Owner of an iMac and a MacBookPro, I am actually hope Sierra will never develop a Mac version, just to save the limited man power for projects are way more important. |
| [2024-12-24 19:08:54] |
| ForgivingComputers.com - Posts: 1154 |
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I just got a Mac M4 Mini with the intention of providing custom studies on Apple ARM CPUs. Using VMWare Fusion, I installed the ARM version of Windows 11. SierraChart_64.exe runs on the Apple ARM silicon. The x86 DLLs ran too. Windows 11 ARM emulates x32 and x64 code. No benchmark data yet. I am open to suggestions. When I ran SierraChart_ARM64.exe, all the built-in studies were there, and my custom study DLLs were not able to load, as expected. I am in the process of developing ARM DLLs with Visual Studio. Date Time Of Last Edit: 2024-12-24 19:10:05
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| [2024-12-24 19:11:55] |
| mesapeti - Posts: 4 |
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Use the normal sierrachart_64.exe.
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| [2025-01-21 03:54:11] |
| thelettere - Posts: 3 |
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I just got a Mac M4 Mini with the intention of providing custom studies on Apple ARM CPUs. Using VMWare Fusion, I installed the ARM version of Windows 11.
Hi there ForgivingComputers, any comment on performance of M4 Mini with SC under VMware Fusion? I run SC on a Win11 ARM VM hosted on a M1 Pro MacBook. I'm looking to get a desktop and trying to decide between Mini M4/Mini M4 Pro with VM or a Windows Mini box. Any comments on performance/bang for back with M4 Mini? Would be interested in hardware config you have too. |
| [2025-01-21 05:07:10] |
| ForgivingComputers.com - Posts: 1154 |
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Hi there ForgivingComputers, any comment on performance of M4 Mini with SC under VMware Fusion?
I haven't done much with the Mac 4 Mini since I got it. I would be happy to run some comparisons with standard studies, charts, and spreadsheets. Something that will move the needle on any system. I haven't had time to create any tests for myself, but if you have something you want me to try, I am open to testing the ARM version of Sierra Chart as well as the x64 version through Windows' emulation layer. I would hesitate to get any Windows Mini Box without knowing what its processor can do. The M4 is a screamer as far as ARM chips go, and the mini windows boxes are often more like Celerons. However, there are different price points, and I haven't researched the market for them. Since you are concerned about performance, I would recommend you don't get the base Mac M4 Mini with 16GB, as you have to share that with Windows. For me that is not an issue, as I only use it for development. For many traders it would also not be an issue. |
| [2025-09-20 08:21:38] |
| User910868 - Posts: 2 |
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Will SC native support for Mac/Linux ever come? Any updates? 😘 I will continue to wait patiently to jump on the train. |
| [2025-09-20 18:32:47] |
| seandunaway - Posts: 356 |
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it seems like an impossible task. sc is so efficient because it uses the lowest level win32 and gdi apis. i know sc keeps moving to their own custom controls but maintaining three different platform codes is just a lot for such a small team the good news is these system calls are incredibly well supported with wine and are incredibly efficient for virtualization i think the energy is better spent just ensuring compatibility with wine and in virtualization for the very rare edge issues. they could theoretically even bundle wine which would probably perform better than transitioning to one of these crummy cross platform gui toolkits even as is, i can run an entire windows 11 IoT container running sierrachart, and it feels more performant and gives me literally 3x the battery life compared to running any of the native java or .net bloatware out there Date Time Of Last Edit: 2025-09-20 18:39:36
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| [2025-09-22 14:27:28] |
| Sierra_Chart Engineering - Posts: 21321 |
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No it is not an impossible task. It will come one day.
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| [2025-09-22 17:10:08] |
| GAArtAi - Posts: 9 |
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OMG…. This is TRULY an INCREDIBLE NEWS, Team Sierra!!! Just hearing that we will get to have Sierra Chart that runs natively on APPLE just made my trading day even more exciting, and I’m sure many of the Apple trading Community will be thrilled to hear this news as well!!! THANK YOU TEAM SIERRA FOR ALL THAT YOU DO PROVIDING US WITH SUCH AN INCREDIBLE TRADING PLATFORM!!! Definitely looking forward to this DAY!!! Date Time Of Last Edit: 2025-09-22 17:12:11
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