Please add support for Julia 1.7 running on Apple Silicon (ARM64) on MacOS

[abhayap]

It would be great if this supported Apple Silicon natively.

[johnnychen94]

This needs upstream support, please subscribe JuliaIO/HDF5.jl#870

[abhayap]

Thanks @johnnychen94

[abhayap]

@johnnychen94 I installed HDF5 via Homebrew. Is there a way I can use that with the MAT package?

[ajalexei]

Check out the "Using custom or system provided HDF5 binaries" section on the HDF5.jl webpage: you can set the environment vartiable JULIA_HDF5_PATH to point to the location of the library file. More generically you can use the override mechanism provided by the julia packaging system to force the usage of the system provided libraries.

[musm]

We've just tagged 0.16 which adds apple silicon support, this will now allow up to upgrade this package and close this issue out. Fix should be available soon.

[abhayap]

Thanks @musm! This works for me now.