How I worked it out in macOS Monterey (12.0.1)

[amadeusjustinn]

Just leaving this for anyone who might have experienced the same issues I did.

Assuming you have downloaded Docker, be it through their website or using brew install --cask docker, download XQuartz using https://www.xquartz.org/. After opening the disk image and running XQuartz.pkg, you need to log out and log back in for the DISPLAY_ENV variable to correctly set. Then add export PATH="/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH" to .zshrc or .bashrc (whichever command line shell you use) and run source .zshrc or source .bashrc. Enable the "Allow connections from network clients" setting in Preferences > Security, then restart XQuartz for the setting to be saved. Run xhost +localhost.

Clone this repository into a folder of your choice (I'll call it folder X); this is where the other downloaded files shall be.

I personally needed Quartus 18.1 and used a MAX 10 FPGA, so I downloaded Quartus, ModelSim and the MAX 10 FPGA device support from https://fpgasoftware.intel.com/18.1/?edition=lite&platform=linux under the Individual Files tab. Put all three files in folder X.

For the FreeType file, I went to https://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype/ and downloaded the latest version, which was freetype-2.10.0.tar.bz2 at the time of me writing this. Put this in folder X too.

Since the versions I had are different from the versions in the instructions, make sure to change all the versions in the Dockerfile. For example, I changed every 20.1 to 18.1, every freetype-2.4.12 to freetype-2.10.0, and so on. Also, I changed every instance of the name of the device from cyclonelp to max10.

When I ran docker build -t quartus . for the first time, I got error 137. From this article, I opened Docker, went to Preferences > Resources > Advanced, and increased Memory from 2.00 GB to 4.00 GB. I don't think you need to do this if you don't get that error.

Once that is complete, I created a folder named Shared in folder X and added this folder in Docker > Preferences > Resources > File Sharing (to add a folder, click the little blue + button near the bottom). Then, run docker run --rm -d -e DISPLAY=host.docker.internal:0 --net=host --volume=$HOME/quartus/config:/root --volume=/shared/folder:/macOS quartus but replace /shared/folder with the directory shown by Docker after adding the shared folder. Quartus should open.