I’m developing an ARM64-native Wine + FEX compatibility runtime on Apple Silicon, without relying on Rosetta 2.
According to the August 2026 Wine-devel discussion, the following entitlement is intended to be available to free developer accounts:
com.apple.developer.cross-architecture-support-unmanaged
However, I have encountered the following issues:
- My Xcode Personal Team does not offer a “Cross-architecture Compatibility Framework” capability.
- Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles is inaccessible to my free developer account.
- I cannot obtain a provisioning profile authorizing this entitlement.
I contacted Apple Developer Support. They explained that entitlement requests generally require an Apple Developer Program Account Holder, but were unable to confirm whether this particular entitlement is currently requestable or where to request it.
Could an Apple engineer clarify:
- Is the unmanaged entitlement currently available to free Personal Teams?
- What is the official App ID, provisioning profile, and code-signing procedure?
- Does this entitlement require additional approval from Apple?
- If it is unavailable, is there an officially supported alternative for development of an ARM64-native Wine loader?
My goal is to use the native macOS cross-architecture features while keeping SIP and other security protections enabled.
Relevant Wine-devel discussion:
https://list\.winehq\.org/hyperkitty/list/wine\-devel%40list\.winehq\.org/thread/CKG5CEN2BE5VRXZ7O7NX4YUSBH3247WH/
Thank you.