What would it take to get ARM64 support?

[Botspot]

What do Raspberry Pi, Nintendo Switch, and Apple M1 Macs have in common? They are all ARM, and can potentially be running desktop Linux.
I propose that UnstoppableSwap GUI have ARM and ARM64 releases. The old electron-based version ran great on ARM, but now it looks more complicated.
If it runs well, I would be more than happy to add it to the Pi-Apps store under the new Crypto section, alongside the other wallets and miners we have that already have ARM support.

[Botspot]

Pi-Apps is versatile and can accept flatpak, AppImage, or deb releases. A plain folder with the binaries would work too. Nearly any format your CI can make, we can work with and use.

[Botspot]

It would need to run on Debian 12 at a minimum, and preferably Debian 11.
If your runtime dependencies cannot do this, please look into flatpak, whose container format allows bundling the latest dependencies with an application for running on any linux version.

[Einliterflasche]

We do have ARM releases, in fact we do most of the developtment on ARM based machines. It's just called aarch64. Integrating with package managers is on our roadmap after we finished some of the current features we're working on.

[binarybaron]

We do have ARM releases, in fact we do most of the developtment on ARM based machines. It's just called aarch64. Integrating with package managers is on our roadmap after we finished some of the current features we're working on.

This is not true. aarch is just for darwin. They're talking about Linux.

[Einliterflasche]

Ahh that's right, I didn't see the .app. Sorry

[Einliterflasche]

A build tool used by Tauri doesn't support compiling for ARM from other architectures (link.

The Tauri docs recommend compiling from an emulated ARM machine, but that is really slow (~1h for a simple app). Since our project is quite heavy, it'd probably be an order of magnitude longer.

However, GitHub launched ARM action runners a few months ago. We could try to use one of those to avoid cross-compilation and emulation all together.

[Botspot]

Flathub has ARM64 CI runners that developers can use for free.