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Add release for windows-arm architecture #599

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hohwille opened this issue Sep 9, 2024 · 5 comments · Fixed by #1003
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Add release for windows-arm architecture #599

hohwille opened this issue Sep 9, 2024 · 5 comments · Fixed by #1003
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hohwille commented Sep 9, 2024

As a Windows on ARM user, I want to be able to use IDEasy so that I can automate my IDE.

Currently we do not provide releases for Windows on ARM.
However, as a new trend, Microsoft has massively improved support for ARM architecture in Windows 11 (24H2).
New laptops with Snapdragon X Elite arrived on the market.
Currently the percentage of ARM for Windows users might still be low but this is going to change and ARM will become much more relevant also for Windows, especially since the ARM CPUs are very efficient and that means longer lasting battery and less fan-noise on laptops.

With GraalVM and our deployment builds it should be no big deal to add windows-arm releases of IDEasy.

See also #563

UPDATE: It looks like this can only be done by the organization itself as windows ARM runners are still a beta feature, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgI6SBP8pEM
and https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/arm64-on-github-actions-powering-faster-more-efficient-build-systems/

@hohwille hohwille added the enhancement New feature or request label Sep 9, 2024
@github-project-automation github-project-automation bot moved this to 🆕 New in IDEasy board Sep 9, 2024
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@alfeilex alfeilex moved this from 🆕 New to 🏗 In progress in IDEasy board Oct 10, 2024
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hohwille commented Jan 6, 2025

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hohwille commented Jan 6, 2025

oracle/graal#2757

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hohwille commented Jan 7, 2025

oracle/graal#8350

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For the record: most x86 binaries do work on WinOnArm via emulation.
However, IDEasy native image for Win x64 does not:

$ ide -v
illegal instruction

Error: IDEasy failed with exit code 132

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I was able to build my own native image on my ARM laptop.
To my surprise there are a lot of obstacles:

So as expected all feels like bleeding edge and early adopter.

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