Support macOS Big Sur (10.16 / 11.0)

[mattpilott]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I know its very early days, but currently node fails to install on macOS 10.16 installing via brew

Describe the solution you'd like
For node to work on 10.16, which of course naturally it will be, closer to release

Describe alternatives you've considered
The only alternate solution is to not use 10.16, which is totally fine, no pressure!

[devsnek]

Related: nodejs/TSC#886

[devsnek]

@mcollina is it possible for us to get access to Big Sur preview?

[foxt]

Installing Node 14.4.0 from Homebrew worked just fine on my MacBook. Also, I have the enrollment command, but i'm not sure if it'd be safe to post here.

[mattpilott]

I installed the latest xcode tools and node now installs

[mcollina]

@devsnek is it possible for us to get access to Big Sur preview?

Maybe. @rvagg do you think you can share some form of access to our developer account?

[rvagg]

@mcollina: Yeah, but I'm not sure what we're going to do with that. I don't think we want to be installing betas on our CI machines, that could get messy. I'm not sacrificing my machine for this upgrade, I only just bit the Catalina bullet and don't exactly trust Apple's recent track record on OS quality.

@AshCripps did we set up those MacMinis with VMWare Fusion? Is it worth the hassle installing and playing around with it? If you don't already have access to our Apple Developer team we should get you that, I think as a member of the team everyone gets access to this.

I know its very early days, but currently node fails to install on macOS 10.16 installing via brew

@matt3224 I think it would be best if you tried installing it directly. There's multiple steps between Node.js and you using Homebrew that could cause problems, and we're only responsible for a few of them. Just clone this repo, (optional: check out one of the stable branches, 14.x perhaps), run ./configure && make -j8 install and tell us if and how it fails.

[AshCripps]

@rvagg Those macminis were set up with fusion so if you can get me an iso (or whatever apple gives you) I can set up a test machine. not 100% sure if it will require an update the the vmware itself and we may have to sacrifice a test machine (we have like 5 in total iirc so no issue).

I dont know if I have access to the developer team I never checked.

[rvagg]

I don't know if it's worth your time or the sacrifice of a CI machine just to test things out this early. During these beta periods we normally rely on users submitting fixes or at least errors with enough information that we can figure it out. We're super early with Big Sur so I'm inclined to recommend we not spin our wheels this early. I'll get you set up in our Apple Developer team though so you can make a judgement for yourself, perhaps you're interested enough for personal reasons to have a poke at it!

[AshCripps]

We've got some time anyway VMware Fusion isn't releasing a tech preview with big Sur support until next month anyway so we can't install it anywhere

[devsnek]

@rvagg I'd be happy to help as well

[foxt]

I'd be happy to help, however I don't know any thing about the Node codebase,but the download on Apple's Dev site only downloads a tool which enables the current machine upgrading to Big Sur. I don't know if you can download an ISO/DMG from Apple's site, if you can't i could possibly zip up a install media image?