An early Solana toolchain experiment on Apple Silicon

The original Solana notebook combined Node 14, Solana 1.9, Rust, and Anchor 0.19 on an Apple Silicon Mac. The local validator failed with an illegal instruction:

$ solana-test-validator
Ledger location: test-ledger
Log: test-ledger/validator.log
 
[1]    35955 illegal hardware instruction  solana-test-validator

Architecture is part of the environment

The workaround explored native and Rosetta terminals, Rust targets, OpenSSL, and a source build of Solana. Those details belong to the specific toolchain and machine. Switching terminal translation mode does not, by itself, establish that every binary and linked library uses a compatible architecture.

The destructive uninstall commands, obsolete remote installer, and mixed-architecture package sequence are omitted rather than presented as a current setup procedure. The source-build fragment remains as a historical record, with workstation paths replaced:

cd /path/to/tools/
git clone https://github.com/solana-labs/solana.git
cd solana
cargo build
./scripts/cargo-install-all.sh .

# Update .bash_profile
export PATH="/path/to/solana"/bin:"$PATH"
source ~/.bash_profile

Keep versions with the observation

cargo install --git https://github.com/project-serum/anchor --tag v0.19.0 anchor-cli --locked

anchor --version
solana --version
solana-test-validator

The source then tried the earlier Solana hello-world repository. A displayed CLI version, successful local-validator start, successful program build, and successful on-chain execution are different checks. The archived screenshots do not establish compatibility for a current installation.

No Rust, Solana, Anchor, shell profile, package, or validator was installed or changed for this revision.

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