Techniques for Running AMD64 Applications on Apple Silicon Macs Using DDEV

Staff Reporter

Randy Fay, writing for DDEV, outlined solutions for running Intel-only AMD64/X64 applications on macOS with Apple Silicon. Despite improvements in native ARM64 support and Rosetta 2 since the launch of Apple’s M-series Macs, some applications like Microsoft and Oracle binaries remain AMD64-only. Fay detailed methods for bridging this gap using DDEV, including running individual services or the DDEV web container with the `platform: linux/amd64` configuration and, less commonly, emulating the entire Docker system as AMD64. He emphasized preferring native applications when available but acknowledged these techniques as necessary for certain cases, citing examples such as `typo3solr`, `mssql/server`, and the Oracle client-side ddev-oci8 add-on. Fay invited users to share their experiences with Intel-focused software and solutions via Discord, email, or issue submission.

Source Reference

Title

Solving Intel-only AMD64/X64 problems on macOS with Apple Silicon

Byline

Randy Fay

Date of Publication

16 April 2025

Organization

DDEV

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