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Support Apple Silicon BrowserStackLocal binary #160

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@robcrocombe

The only MacOS option for downloading a binary of BrowserStackLocal is darwin-x64 which is for Intel Macs. This does not work on Apple Silicon Macs, which have superseded Intel Macs for the last 5 years. Please build an Apple Silicon version of your binary and update the references in the code and in the website documentation, neither of which even mention this constraint. Thanks!

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  1. bweston92 commented on Jul 3, 2025

    @bweston92

    Just hit this issue too bad CPU type in executable: /Users/bweston/.browserstack/BrowserStackLocal

  2. mgol commented on Sep 20, 2026

    @mgol

    For me, the Intel binary used to work on my MacBook Pro with M2 Pro because of Rosetta 2. It stopped working when I updated to macOS 27 Golden Gate, but I later realized that this update uninstalled Rosetta 2, leading to running the command printing:

    zsh: bad CPU type in executable: BrowserStackLocal
    

    Running:

    softwareupdate --install-rosetta
    

    reinstalled Rosetta 2 and the binary works again.

    Support for Rosetta 2 will be dropped from macOS 28, though, so you definitely need to create an Apple Silicon version of that binary by then...

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