Tesseract Python available for Mac OSX arm64! (test version)

[johnwason]

A prerelease version of the tesseract-robotics Python package for Mac OSX is available on pypi! I was able to patch the relatively few issues with the tesseract source and build for arm64 on Mac OSX. It is currently only available for Python 3.12. Right now the package is built in a pretty rough setup on my development computer. I will work over the next few weeks to upstream the required changes and configure CI.

To use the package, first install Python 3.12 on Mac OSX (https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.12.0/python-3.12.0-macos11.pkg) and run the following in a terminal:

python3 -m pip install tesseract-robotics

This is a very experimental package, so there may be stability issues. Let me know if you run into any problems.

[johnwason]

Intel x64 Mac OSX version is also uploaded for pip. The above instructions should work on an intel mac.

[johnwason]

Here are the local build scripts I used to compile on mac osx in case they are needed.
build_scripts.zip