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Thanks a lot for the contribution!
I think the process could be enhanced a bit.
Unfortunately, using self-hosted runners is currently not feasible for us... Maybe a good idea would be to use https://github.com/docker/setup-qemu-action and emulation.
Let me know If you need help from my side 😃
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This approach could be enhanced, IMHO. Having a dedicated runner is a problem:
- we have to manually operate on it and update it regularly
- it's a security risk
- I don't think that having a forked private version only for the self-hosted runner will pay off in the future
Maybe using this amazing piece of technology would be better:
https://github.com/docker/setup-qemu-action
Basically, this allows to run docker containers built for another architecture directly inside the runners provided by GitHub. Like this one for example: https://hub.docker.com/r/amd64/ubuntu/
We use the same approach to build imgtool
https://github.com/arduino/imgtool-packing/blob/bcb0ac50d94633784c51a0833fe2346e8cf8b2aa/.github/workflows/release.yml#L118-L187
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Instead of committing a patch, would be better to apply this directly and commit the result
Motivation
Build arduino-ide for arm64
Change description
Adds build documentation and build script
Other information
These are instructions on compiling arduino-ide 2 for arm64 using self-hosted runners. Compiling can be done on raspberry pi os 64-bit or ubuntu arm64. The compiled binaries run on raspberry pi os 64-bit and ubuntu arm64.
Compiling is done using github actions, the same build process as on X86.
Because github does not offer linux arm64 runners, compilation is done using a self-hosted runner inside a docker on a raspberry pi.
Because github does not recommend running self-hosted runners on public repositories, the self-hosted runners are started from a fork of the arduino-ide repository, with public PR switched off on the fork.
A definitive solution would be github offering public linux/arm64 runners.
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