• sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alOP
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      5 months ago

      Aha. I see so many Docker projects with examples of how to build for ARM, I just assumed it was always that easy.

      • qaz@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        It’s easy to compile something for a certain infrastructure if you can compile it yourself and won’t have to beg another party to do so.

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      5 months ago

      Is that a developer licence thing? I know GitHub recently announced Windows Arm runners that would be available to non-teams/enterprise tiers later this year.

      • RedWeasel@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        It isn’t as simple as just compiling. Large programs like games then need to be tested to make sure the code doesn’t have bugs on ARM. Developers often use assembly to optimize performance, so those portions would need to be rewritten as well. And Apple has been the only large install of performant ARM consumer hardware on anything laptop or desktop windows. So, there hasn’t been a strong install base to even encourage many developers to port their stuff to windows on ARM.