When I started developing my macOS application, my development machine was an Intel-based Mac . At that time, most of my third-party libraries were built specifically for the x86_64 architecture. Everything worked perfectly.
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/nehachauhan18/from-intel-mac-to-apple-silicon-how-i-built-universal-third-party-libraries-for-a-qt-macos-1moo)