Support for aarch64

[Ashesh3]

Currently the binary file rescript-editor-analysis.exe fails to run on aarch64 architecture.

bash: /root/.vscode-server/extensions/chenglou92.rescript-vscode-1.4.2/server/analysis_binaries/linux/rescript-editor-analysis.exe: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error

$ uname -m
aarch64

Would it be possible to add support for aarch64?

[Ashesh3]

@cknitt I am still having the same error in the latest pre-release version.

bash: /root/.vscode-server/extensions/chenglou92.rescript-vscode-1.7.7/server/analysis_binaries/linux/rescript-editor-analysis.exe: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error

uname -a
Linux e5c29417fc74 5.15.0-1016-oracle #20-Ubuntu SMP Mon Aug 8 07:08:08 UTC 2022 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux

[cknitt]

Oh, sorry, my bad! 😞 This issue is about Linux ARM, but my PR was about macOS ARM support. 🤦‍♂️

The problem with Linux ARM is that we have no CI setup / Github Actions runner for that platform.

[Ashesh3]

Oh, sorry, my bad! 😞 This issue is about Linux ARM, but my PR was about macOS ARM support. 🤦‍♂️

The problem with Linux ARM is that we have no CI setup / Github Actions runner for that platform.

No worries 😄

Maybe this could help: https://github.com/marketplace/actions/arm-runner
It seems it can run builds for armv6l, armv7l, aarch64
I can try to run it later once and check if it's usable in this scenario.

[fhammerschmidt]

Why would we not support Linux ARM64 in the VSCode extension when the compiler supports it?

https://github.com/rescript-lang/rescript-compiler/blob/master/.github/workflows/ci.yml#L23-L27

The only issue I see is that the bundle gets too large, so we should switch to platform-specific extensions: https://code.visualstudio.com/api/working-with-extensions/publishing-extension#platformspecific-extensions