How to cross compile a Blender Apple Intel binary from an Apple Silicon system?

Building Blender
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Any simple way of doing this (MAKE or CMAKE arguments?)

Cheers.

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Like this:

make release BUILD_DIR=../build_x86_64 BUILD_CMAKE_ARGS="-DCMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES=x86_64"
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Works great, thanks @brecht, however, it requires the following for make update to work as well prior to compiling:

diff --git a/GNUmakefile b/GNUmakefile
index 33a0dec4106..dd13a8065a5 100644
--- a/GNUmakefile
+++ b/GNUmakefile
@@ -552,7 +552,7 @@ icons_geom: .FORCE
 	    "$(BLENDER_DIR)/release/datafiles/blender_icons_geom_update.py"
 
 update: .FORCE
-	@$(PYTHON) ./build_files/utils/make_update.py
+	@$(PYTHON) ./build_files/utils/make_update.py --architecture="x86_64"
 
 update_code: .FORCE
 	@$(PYTHON) ./build_files/utils/make_update.py --no-libraries
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Ah yes, you could also manually svn checkout the libraries also. Once they have been checked out once, make update will be able to update them without requiring code modifications.

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OK thx, good to know!