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feat: add support for native windows arm64 build tools #2650

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Visual Studio 2022 17.4 adds a native C++ compiler for Windows on ARM. This allows arm64 devices to leverage native build tools, leading to a 35% (or more) speed increase.

Related announcement from Microsoft: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/arm64-visual-studio-is-officially-here/

Building Signal Desktop's native dependencies on a Surface Pro X (arm64 device):

x86 build tools (emulation): Done in 108.97s.
arm64 build tools (native): Done in 69.91s.
That's ~35.8% faster with the native tools.

@dennisameling dennisameling force-pushed the win-arm64-build-tools branch 2 times, most recently from bdc65cf to fb6c4f3 Compare April 26, 2022 07:41
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@rvagg any chance this could be reviewed & merged? Now that nodejs/node#46228 has been merged and NodeJS itself can be built on arm64 (cross-compilation was already possible), having first-class support in node-gyp as well would be great. I just rebased the PR and updated the test with the most recent VS2022 version (17.4.33213.308). Thanks!

Visual Studio 2022 17.4 adds a native C++ compiler for Windows on ARM.
This allows arm64 devices to leverage native build tools, leading to
a 35% (or more) speed increase.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/arm64-visual-studio-is-officially-here/

Signed-off-by: Dennis Ameling <dennis@dennisameling.com>
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richardlau commented Apr 22, 2023

cc @StefanStojanovic @nodejs/platform-windows-arm

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LGTM! Since GitHub actions are failing in general (not caused by this PR), I pulled this branch and ran tests locally - they passed.

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I'm planning to land this PR in one week (26 May), if someone has any objections to this being landed, please express them by then.

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@rvagg @cclauss I'm changing tests from tap to mocha in #2851. Since this PR adds some tests and it's already approved, what are your thoughts on landing it so I can change those tests in my PR as well? I've already planned to land this on Friday since there were no objections, so I can do it a few days earlier.

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cclauss commented May 23, 2023

You want to merge a PR with 30 failing and 1 successful checks?

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You want to merge a PR with 30 failing and 1 successful check?

Yes. Those tests (as is the case in other more recent PRs) are failing because the new make-fetch-happen version and tap we use not working well together (I'm working on a fix for that in #2851). I reviewed this and tested it locally and all looks good.

@StefanStojanovic StefanStojanovic merged commit bb76021 into nodejs:main May 25, 2023
@dennisameling dennisameling deleted the win-arm64-build-tools branch May 25, 2023 11:38
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