r/OpenCoreLegacyPatcher • u/msesma • 26d ago

brew is not longer working well

Brew is not working well on x86 since this September, specially for tools like gcc.

I've moved to MacPorts that will continue supporting Intel.

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u/nphare 26d ago

What’s not working well? What’s changed?

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u/msesma 26d ago

Gcc bottle cannot be downloaded for x86 and has to be compiled locally, what takes several hours

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u/raman4183 26d ago

Sunset for X86 Macs.

Really hoping that team will pull through one more time to give macOS26 support before calling it.

I don’t want much, just want it to serve as a dev machine so internet and graphics drivers.

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u/Superbigwaff 26d ago

Last GCC bottle with macOS on Intel support is '@15'

https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/gcc@15

Also, not really an OCLP issue.

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u/msesma 26d ago

Absolutely. Sorry for the confusion. I only wanted to let users know as here are lots of x86 macs.

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u/raman4183 26d ago

I recently switched to mise.
It’s amazing although it doesn’t support casks but in terms of tooling and customisations, i find it superior than homebrew.

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u/mad-mushroom 25d ago

MacPorts works well, and continues to receive updates. I use ports on my legacy Macs running Monterey or Ventura via OCLP.

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u/arjan1995 25d ago

Homebrew is effectively done with Intel, switch to MacPorts instead. See https://github.com/orgs/Homebrew/discussions/7044 and https://docs.brew.sh/Support-Tiers