QST: Apple M1, arm64

[beaverden]

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What is the current state of amd64 compilation? Docker pip installation takes ages and I'm having trouble installing it on my macos with apple m1 chip.

Is there anything I can do to help provide precompiled binaries for release on this platform?

[lithomas1]

Hi @beaverden, I believe you mean arm64 not amd64(amd64 is for Intel/AMD chips). We currently don't publish wheels on PyPI because pandas fails a couple of tests on the arm64 architecture(and we don't have free CI infrastructure for arm64 yet), but you should be able to get pandas via conda if you have it(https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/pandas).

[beaverden]

I'm sorry. You're right about arm64. Is there a way to help on the tests?

[phofl]

They are listed in #41740, not sure where we are exactly there

[lithomas1]

Hi @beaverden, just giving you a heads-up that I'm going to be trying to add M1 support through universal2 wheels.
I'm going to be closing this issue for now to keep discussion in one place there, but please feel free to chime in on the universal2 wheels issue(#39053).