ARM Software Support

The cluster focuses on discussions about the lack of native ARM (especially ARM64) support in various software projects, requests for ARM builds or ports, recompilation needs, and emulation challenges between ARM and x86_64 architectures.

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IMHO ARM M1 CI AWS raspberrypi.org SSH DMG icculus.org X64 arm linux x86 binary run build support vs code 64 bit gcc

Sample Comments

varbhat Oct 22, 2020 View on HN

Why can't they just emulate arm64 linux instead ? It must be easier as both are of same arch.

Roark66 Sep 6, 2023 View on HN

Yes on arm. Sorry I meant the cpu (x86_64) not a cpu. :-D

timdorr Nov 12, 2020 View on HN

Nope, they aren't providing emulation of arm64 on x86_64.

koksik202 Nov 8, 2020 View on HN

Would be great if it could run x86 on arm but I guess if it was that easy it would already be done

mijoharas Apr 11, 2023 View on HN

It's a real shame that it can't be made to work on arm systems

inatreecrown2 Sep 29, 2021 View on HN

i am looking for something like this but for arm64 on macos.

0xdeadb00f Nov 11, 2018 View on HN

Shouldn't they just run Linux on arm? Seeing as Linux already supports it?

ehutch79 Oct 29, 2025 View on HN

Ask the maintainers to build arm images. Realistically they should be, unless the project uses lots of x86 assembly.

mkl Sep 12, 2019 View on HN

What is it about your software that it can't run on ARM?

hrydgard Aug 13, 2025 View on HN

It works just fine and is natively ARM, since a year or so.