topic Re: ARM processor compatible Pro in ArcGIS Pro Questions

ARM processor compatible Pro

Anonymous User — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 16:52:37 GMT

Hi I'm a mac user that has been running ArcGIS pro through parallels. However I recently upgraded to mac with the M1 chip. Parallels just released an ARM compatible version and it run windows ARM okay, put I can't get ArcGIS pro (arcmap 10.7 appears to work though). I would really prefer to work with Pro since I've finally gotten used to the layout are there any plans to make pro ARM compatible?

Re: ARM processor compatible Pro

DanPatterson — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 22:53:46 GMT

Did you see the section in the help topic?

Run ArcGIS Pro on a Mac—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation

(of course Reddit just suggested getting a PC)

Re: ARM processor compatible Pro

MarcoBoeringa — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 18:05:33 GMT

I think this will have to wait for WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) to be ported to ARM by Microsoft. Afaik, ArcGIS Pro is build based on that, and unless it becomes available on ARM, won't be able to run on that.

There seems to be some promise though:

https://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-wpf-support-windows-10-on-arm/

https://mspoweruser.com/windows-forms-apps-support-windows-10-arm/

Re: ARM processor compatible Pro

MarcelSt-Germain — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 20:17:05 GMT

ArcGIS Pro is not speedy so, unless ESRI compile it for ARM, using window in Mac silicon with windows emulating X64, could be very frustrating.

Re: ARM processor compatible Pro

MarcelSt-Germain — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 20:36:52 GMT

Sorry, but not useful. ESRI haven't updated is page. Until ESRI port ArcGIS Pro to ARM or windows finalize the x64 port emulator and release it to the public, Mac silicon won't be able to use it. Even then, if it's not port to ARM, and only emulation is available, I do not think the slow ArcGIS Pro will be very useful.

Re: ARM processor compatible Pro

George_Thompson — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 16:17:26 GMT

Check out this new blog that discusses this: ArcGIS Pro on M1 MacBooks - Esri Community

Re: ARM processor compatible Pro

joe_b — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 14:30:07 GMT

I had a problem running ArcGIS Pro 3.0 on Windows 11 (ARM64 version) on Parallels with M1 Pro macbook. The error in the error logs was:

The library hostfxr.dll was found, but loading it from C:\Program Files\...\hostfxr.dll failed

Turned out I had installed the .NET 6 Arm64 SDK (Pro dependancy), but Pro runs in X64 emulation mode on M1s - so I installed the X64 .NET SDK (i.e. Intel) as well and Pro 3.0 runs fine now.

Re: ARM processor compatible Pro

MarcoBoeringa — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 09:46:46 GMT

Note that you don't have to install the full .NET 6 SDK unless you intend to do development using ESRI's Pro SDK's.

Pro 3.0 runs fine with just the .NET 6 Desktop Runtime:

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/6.0

Re: ARM processor compatible Pro

PhengSokun92 — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 03:34:17 GMT

Hello Sir

I want to know about performance of arcgispro on m1 and issue related when emulating it on m1 . Could you share me some information related to this because I am planning to get MacBook Air to run arcgispro too .
my Email: phengsokun097@gmail.com

best regard,

phengsokun

Re: ARM processor compatible Pro

JohnLindner — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 14:38:10 GMT

THANK YOU - WORKED OUT JUST LIKE THAT FOR ME AS WELL!

ARCGIS PRO NOW WORKING ON M2-CHIP

Using:

Parallels 18

Windows 11

ArcGIS 3

windowsdesktop-runtime-6.0.5-win-x64.exe (IMPORTANT: Use "x64" - NOT "arm64"

Re: ARM processor compatible Pro

AzinSharaf — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 16:16:08 GMT

@JohnLindner
Does it still work for you? I was using ArcGIS Pro 2.x on a VM Win 11 Pro hosted on M1 macbook using Parallels 18. Everything was working fine with a very good performance.

Recently on 3.x version all the arcpy functions crashes (MSVCP140.dll file crashes according to Event viewer). I haven't be able to fix it yet. I tried a new VM and got the same error.

Re: ARM processor compatible Pro

JimTochterman — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 17:30:21 GMT

Can validate this as well. Was setting up a second test Parallels VM on my Mac M1 and completely forgot NOT to install the Arm64 version of the .Net Desktop Runtime and Pro failed to start. Uninstalled that version and downloaded/installed the x64 version (in this case 6.0.24) and Pro starts up fine.