NV5 Geospatial Software product support for the Apple Silicon (ARM-based) macOS platform
The upcoming IDL 8.8.1 and ENVI 5.6.1 product update (release expected in late summer 2021) has been successfully tested to run and will be supported on the new ARM-based Apple Silicon / M1 platform with macOS 11 (Big Sur). IDL and ENVI on this platform require use of the Rosetta 2 translation environment and a compatible version of XQuartz (v2.8.1 as of this help article update).
Additionally, although IDL 8.8 and ENVI 5.6 for Mac are not officially tested and supported on the M1 platform, we believe they should run successfully on M1 Macs with Rosetta 2.
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Written 11/13/2020 JU , Reviewed MM. Last updated 7/28/2021.