Brother HL-2220 on macOS Golden Gate

Brother's printer driver for the HL-2220 on macOS 27 (Golden Gate) is x86_64 only, I discovered when I tried to print after I upgraded. To fix it, the agent built me a driver from brlaser, which restores the printer. The agent says: The HL-2220 is a host-based "GDI" printer — no PostScript, no PCL, no AirPrint/IPP. To compile the driver, it did: git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser.git cd brlaser cmake -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \ -DCMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES=arm64 \ -DCMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5 cmake --build build -j8 cd build && ctest # 4/4 passed ppdc -d ppd brlaser.drv # generates ppd/br2220.ppd Build deps came from Homebrew (cmake) plus the CLT SDK for cups/raster.h. Two gotchas1. `-DCMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5` is required — current CMake rejects the project's old `cmake_minimum_required` outright. 2. The generated PPD names the filter bare (`rastertobrlaser`), so CUPS looks in `ServerBin` = `/usr/libexec/cups/filter`, which is **read-only…

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