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 This is useful to reduce candidate gathering time when it is known for certain network interfaces to not work well. A sample callback is available in `Common.c`. The `iceSetInterfaceFilterFunc` in `KvsRtcConfiguration` must be set to the required callback. In the sample, it can be done this way in `initializePeerConnection()`: 
 `configuration.kvsRtcConfiguration.iceSetInterfaceFilterFunc = sampleFilterNetworkInterfaces`
 
+### Building on MacOS M1
+When building on MacOS M1, if the build fails while trying to build OpenSSL or Websockets, run the following command:
+`cmake .. -DBUILD_OPENSSL_PLATFORM=darwin64-arm64-cc`
 
 ## Documentation
 All Public APIs are documented in our [Include.h](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-video-streams-webrtc-sdk-c/blob/master/src/include/com/amazonaws/kinesis/video/webrtcclient/Include.h), we also generate a [Doxygen](https://awslabs.github.io/amazon-kinesis-video-streams-webrtc-sdk-c/) each commit for easier navigation.