ARM Support about ouch HOT 7 OPEN

I investigated a bit more about this as I just got this new ARM-based computer.

It actually works after adding the specific target:

$ rustup target add aarch64-apple-darwin
$ cargo install --target aarch64-apple-darwin ouch

I verified it like this:

$ file -b $(which ouch)
Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64

Perhaps this could be added to the automated release pipeline.

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I'm not sure if GitHub Actions is able to build for aarch64-apple-darwin yet

I gave it a try here but it failed to compile bzip2

Maybe I'm just doing it wrong though, I'll have to retry that later

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bzip2 might have to be installed through Homebrew, at least that's what I did locally.

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@disrupted I'm messing with the CI, trying to make a workflow that provides a binary for your platform.

Now we are stuck in an error while compiling bzip2-sys, as you said, bzip2 might have to be installed through Homebrew for this platform (even tho is not needed for the x86_64 one).

https://github.com/ouch-org/ouch/runs/3715706353#step:4:156

I have never used homebrew, ever, so do you remember what was the command necessary to make it work? Based on it I can try to figure it out how to add as a step in the CI setup.

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At the moment of writing, there isn't proper support in the CI for building this regularly, I realized that aarch64-apple-darwin is a tier 2 target, the compiler code is not regularly tested.

We should wait until there is tier 1 support for it.

Also, me and @vrmiguel both use x86_64-linux, and we are the only ones who are actively committed to maintaining ouch.

Here is the tracking issue for support in the official lang repo rust-lang/rust#73908, sadly, there is no planned date for it to be solved, so I'll close this issue for now.

NOTE: if you are from the feature and now GitHub Actions supports running jobs on mac's arm64, feel free to bump this issue.

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The future is now.

rust-lang/rust#73908 is still outstanding but it's getting closer because GitHub Actions now support M1 builds. According to the docs, the minute multiplier is 10x for macOS, meaning if it takes 2 minutes to build, your GitHub Actions account will be charged 20 minutes.

Until arm64 binaries are present in the release, is it against the LICENSE to distribute pre-compiled binaries of ouch?

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because GitHub Actions now support M1 builds

That's great news for Rust :)

the minute multiplier is 10x for macOS, meaning if it takes 2 minutes to build, your GitHub Actions account will be charged 20 minutes.

Cool piece of info, I believe it is OK for us because Ouch is open-source and GitHub allows us to use too much CI, more than we need here, for sure.

is it against the LICENSE to distribute pre-compiled binaries of ouch?

It is not! Feel free to do so.

(I feel like editing the source code, not updating the LICENSE, AND THEN redistributing this edited version should be illegal, but I'm not sure, I encourage you to update the LICENSE if you do edit the code.)

Reopening while we wait for updates from rust-lang/rust#73908.

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