Can't compile from onnx to hef on Mac m1

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Can’t use DFC to compile my onnx to hef as I am not on a x86 cpu (creating a virtual environment won’t help as avx still won’t be supported) and the raspberry is of course aarch64 so won’t work to compile it there either. I am stuck, have i wasted my money? Please please please link a guide that can get me over this roadblock (the ones in hailo.ai do not cover this). My goal was to convert it from onnx to hef with DFC then clone hailo model zoo, and run the model from there. Is there nothing that can be done?

I’m using Macos M1 Max 2021

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The Hailo Dataflow Compiler has several dependencies and special requirements like AVX. Therefore, we officially support it only on x86-based Ubuntu (version 20 and 22) and WSL2.

Since it’s 2025, x86 machines are still widely available. You can likely find access to one nearby. Alternatively, you may also consider using cloud-based solutions that provide x86-based environments.

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Followed your advice and i got dataflow compiler installed, when i run hailo -h i get:
(hailo_env) tfolbaek@fridge-instance-ubuntu:~/hailo_model_zoo$ hailo -h
[info] Current Time: 02:20:30, 02/19/25
[info] CPU: Architecture: x86_64, Model: INTEL(R) XEON(R) PLATINUM 8581C CPU @ 2.30GHz, Number Of Cores: 8, Utilization: 0.0%
[info] Memory: Total: 29GB, Available: 28GB
[info] System info: OS: Linux, Kernel: 6.8.0-1021-gcp
[info] Hailo DFC Version: 3.30.0
[info] HailoRT Version: Not Installed
[info] PCIe: No Hailo PCIe device was found
[info] Running hailo -h
usage: hailo [-h] [–version] {analyze-noise,compiler,params-csv,parser,profiler,optimize,tb,visualizer,tutorial,har,join,har-onnx-rt,runtime-profiler,dfc-studio,help} …

Hailo Command Line Utility

positional arguments:
{analyze-noise,compiler,params-csv,parser,profiler,optimize,tb,visualizer,tutorial,har,join,har-onnx-rt,runtime-profiler,dfc-studio,help}
Hailo utilities aimed to help with everything you need
analyze-noise Analyze network quantization noise
compiler Compile Hailo model to HEF binary files
params-csv Convert translated params to csv
parser Translate network to Hailo network
profiler Hailo models Profiler
optimize Optimize model
tb Create Tensorboard summary for Tensorflow model
visualizer HAR visualization tool
tutorial Runs the tutorials in jupyter notebook
har Query and extract information from Hailo Archive file
join Join two Hailo models to a single model
har-onnx-rt Generates ONNX-Runtime model including pre/post processing
runtime-profiler Hailo Runtime Profiler
dfc-studio Start DFC Studio
help Show the list of commands

options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
–version show program’s version number and exit

However the output of my conversion:
(hailo_env) tfolbaek@fridge-instance-ubuntu:~$ hailomz compile yolov8s --ckpt=best.onnx --hw-arch hailo8l --calib-path /images --classes 8 --performance
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/home/tfolbaek/hailo_env/bin/hailomz”, line 33, in
sys.exit(load_entry_point(‘hailo-model-zoo’, ‘console_scripts’, ‘hailomz’)())
File “/home/tfolbaek/hailo_model_zoo/hailo_model_zoo/main.py”, line 122, in main
run(args)
File “/home/tfolbaek/hailo_model_zoo/hailo_model_zoo/main.py”, line 101, in run
from hailo_model_zoo.main_driver import compile, evaluate, optimize, parse, profile
File “/home/tfolbaek/hailo_model_zoo/hailo_model_zoo/main_driver.py”, line 16, in
from hailo_model_zoo.core.main_utils import (
File “/home/tfolbaek/hailo_model_zoo/hailo_model_zoo/core/main_utils.py”, line 18, in
from hailo_model_zoo.core.infer import infer_factory
File “/home/tfolbaek/hailo_model_zoo/hailo_model_zoo/core/infer/infer_factory.py”, line 14, in
discovered_plugins = {name: importlib.import_module(name) for _, name, _ in iter_namespace(hailo_model_zoo.core.infer)}
File “/home/tfolbaek/hailo_model_zoo/hailo_model_zoo/core/infer/infer_factory.py”, line 14, in
discovered_plugins = {name: importlib.import_module(name) for _, name, _ in iter_namespace(hailo_model_zoo.core.infer)}
File “/usr/lib/python3.10/importlib/init.py”, line 126, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
File “/home/tfolbaek/hailo_model_zoo/hailo_model_zoo/core/infer/hw_infer_utils.py”, line 6, in
from hailo_platform import (
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘hailo_platform’