Unofficial AFNI macOS 26 clang build for Apple M2

Hi AFNI community,

I used Codex to build an unofficial AFNI macOS 26 binaries for Apple M2. I am sharing it in case it helps anhone who want a optimized-built AFNI binary on newer Apple hardware.

This is not an official AFNI/NIMH build. Please treat it as a community build and do not use it in a production enviroment.

Build summary:

AFNI version: AFNI_25.2.00 'Gordian I'
Architecture: arm64
Build system: 2023 MacBook Pro, Apple M2 Max
Compiler: Apple clang
Optimization: -O3 -mcpu=apple-m2 -pipe
Package: macos_13_ARM.AFNI_25.2.00.m2clang.2.tgz

Dependency choices:

jpeg-turbo instead of system libjpeg
zlib-ng-compat instead of system zlib

Runtime Homebrew packages requirements:

brew install openmotif mesa-glu gsl glib libomp libxpm zlib-ng-compat

The package includes atlas/template/assets from https://afni.nimh.nih.gov/pub/dist/tgz/macos_13_ARM.AFNI_25.3.03.tgz and removes Python __pycache__ files.

Release:

https://github.com/cecilyen/MacM2_AFNI/releases/tag/v25.2.00-m2clang.2

README:

https://github.com/cecilyen/MacM2_AFNI/blob/main/README.md

I would appreciate any feedback as this is the first time Codex (AI agent) to help me building AFNI on macOS.

Very interesting idea. Hope it works well, and hope it was relatively easy.