Defi-Node and Defi-Wallet releases for Raspberry Pi on defich/ain and defich/app

[Martin8617]

Which feature is your request related to?

I like to have releases for Raspberry Pi on defich/ain and defich/app

Is your request related to a problem? Please describe.

The releases for linux does not work on arm processors. There is a growing community (e.g. https://github.com/DefiNode) who like to use the Raspberry's

Describe the solution you'd like:

I offer you to compile and upload the client (Defi Node) as well as the desktop app (Defi Wallet) to defich/ain resp. defich/app, if I get access and permission to do so.

Describe alternatives you've considered:

I already offer the releases on https://github.com/Martin8617 😉

Additional context:

I prefer to have the releases on the official repositories (and close my one).

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[prasannavl]

Hi @Martin8617 - thanks for reaching out regarding this.

First of all, so happy to see the https://github.com/DefiNode project! Thank you for sharing that with everyone. That said, the short answer to your question is - while we'd love to have arm support in the future as well, unfortunately we have to balance priorities and is not a part of our upcoming roadmap.

Some additional context:

• As you already likely know the dockerfile in the contrib dir has included the capability to build defichain on arm64 natively, ever since it's very first release (however we do not actively test it or keep it up to date).
• Adding official support to it involves having the required testing (both manual and automated) in place - and for the near future, we're prioritizing our resources to build the other critical aspects like loans, stocks, derivatives and the infrastructure to support it and this unforuntately means we would not be able to officially support adding another hardware arch to it for the time being.

I prefer to have the releases on the official repositories (and close my one).

It's sad to see that you'd prefer not to maintain it. While we may not be able support the builds for now, we would however be happy to accept PRs that adds experimental arm64 dev builds to the CI for now (and it's possible that it can graduate into release as experimental builds over time) if you think that can help.

Additionally, we would also be happy to link to your repo in our release notes, as well as other official sources like websites, if you think that'll help. Please let us know if you think you'd like that.

Thanks!

[Martin8617]

Hi @prasannavl Thanks for your answer. I fully agree with you and understand your points.

So I'm going forward to build the future arm releases on https://github.com/Martin8617. To link to my repo will help the community, but will give pressure to me to release in time. I do my best* - promised.

I will check out the dockerfile for arm build, however I'm not familiar with docker till now.

*) compiling the ain build works fine, compiling the app aborts sometimes with error with the npm run init of the webpack...

[Martin8617]

Hi @prasannavl Thanks for adding my repo to defichain.com 👍