Rosetta v2 only for 64bit apps?

[ian87w]

A quick one to those with DTKs.
Does Rosetta v2 support 32bit intel apps, or does it only support 64bit apps?

 

[nick9191]

64 only. It would be weird for Apple to drop support for 32bit only to reintroduce support via translation.

About the Rosetta Translation Environment | Apple Developer Documentation

Learn how Rosetta translates executables, and understand what Rosetta can’t translate.

developer.apple.com

 

[the8thark]

Apple depreciated 32 bit apps for over a decade and fully discontinued being able to run them on OS10.15 at the end of last year. Here's an article about it.

32-bit app compatibility with macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 and later - Apple Support

About the transition to 64-bit technology and how it affects 32-bit apps.

support.apple.com

So the answer to your question is most likely it only supports 64 bit apps.

 

[ian87w]

64 only. It would be weird for Apple to drop support for 32bit only to reintroduce support via translation.

About the Rosetta Translation Environment | Apple Developer Documentation

Learn how Rosetta translates executables, and understand what Rosetta can’t translate.

developer.apple.com

Cool. Thanks for the link as well.

 

[Shivetya]

They really need to start publishing a list of major developers who are offering dual binary support along with a list of applications working within their Rosetta V2 platform.

 

[cmaier]

They really need to start publishing a list of major developers who are offering dual binary support along with a list of applications working within their Rosetta V2 platform.

Why?

 

[the8thark]

They really need to start publishing a list of major developers who are offering dual binary support along with a list of applications working within their Rosetta V2 platform.

Why?

Anyone can do this. Just put up a topic here and get people to contribute to it.

 

[leman]

They really need to start publishing a list of major developers who are offering dual binary support along with a list of applications working within their Rosetta V2 platform.

Will be probably simpler to make a list of applications not working with Rosetta.

 

[Yebubbleman]

A quick one to those with DTKs.
Does Rosetta v2 support 32bit intel apps, or does it only support 64bit apps?

64-bit only. As others have stated, you're not going to have Catalina drop support for 32-bit Intel binaries only to have Rosetta 2 re-introduce said support. I'm pretty sure this was all a part of the plan and that, as a result, more things will work in Rosetta 2 than did in its PowerPC-to-Intel predecessor.

They really need to start publishing a list of major developers who are offering dual binary support along with a list of applications working within their Rosetta V2 platform.

Considering how closely timed this was with Apple dropping support for 32-bit Intel applications, it's very likely that most 64-bit Intel applications (obviously excluding Intel native versions of Parallels, Fusion, and VirtualBox) will just work and that such a list won't be necessary.