ERROR: Cannot execute binary file

[DavidGO464]

Hello !!!

I wonder if minimac4 can be used in Mac computers Terminal or it is restricted to Linux OS

I am using Apple silicon M2 Macbook pro

[jonathonl]

Yes, it can be used on Mac OS if compiled on Mac OS. Where did you get the minimac4 binary from?

[DavidGO464]

I first trid to used the following:

then It says that the inataller was not in the downloaded documents...
thus I tried the github version:

But still getting "cannot execute binary file"

how did you installed it?
(I am using macbook M2 ARM)

[jonathonl]

The prebuilt executable on the Github releases section is a Linux-only executable. You have to build from source (https://github.com/statgen/Minimac4#building-from-source) on MacOS. Unfortunately, recent versions of MacOS have broken compilation of some the dependencies, so it might be difficult for users not experienced with compiling c++ code. MacOS is not generally supported, but certainly possible if you know what you are doing.

For MacOS, it will look something like this:

# cget can be installed with pip3
cget ignore --prefix ./minimac4-install xz   # XZ is broken on recent versions of MacOS.
cget install --prefix ./minimac4-install statgen/Minimac4
./minimac4-install/bin/minimac4 --help