cairo

Cairo is a framework library, not a standalone application — it is typically used as a dependency by other software rather than run directly. The good news is that Cairo has had native Apple Silicon support available via Homebrew since at least 2023, and the upstream project supplies arm64-compatible builds. If you are a developer whose application links against Cairo, the path forward depends on how you obtained it. If you installed Cairo via Homebrew, run `brew install cairo` (or `brew upgrade cairo` if already installed) and Homebrew will supply the native arm64 build automatically — no special configuration needed. If you compiled Cairo yourself or obtained it from another source, visit cairographics.org and download or rebuild the latest source to get an arm64-compatible version. For applications that embed Cairo (like Python visualization libraries, R graphics packages, or custom C/C++ programs), update those host applications to recent versions that pull in current native Cairo bindings — most popular libraries have shifted to native builds in the past 2–3 years. If you are unsure which host application is using Cairo, check your application's documentation or run `otool -L` on the binary to see which Cairo dylib it references. Since Rosetta 2 will be removed in macOS 28 (September 2028), any Intel-only Cairo dependency will stop working at that point, so updating to a native build now will keep your workflow stable long-term.