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esa / pygmo2

A Python platform to perform parallel computations of optimisation tasks (global and local) via the asynchronous generalized island model.
https://esa.github.io/pygmo2/
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[FEATURE] ARM support, is it possible? #72

Closed Epse closed 3 years ago

Epse commented 3 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I work on a Wi-Fi fuzzing appliance, which is being ported to an ARM platform, is it possible to use pygmo on ARM? Install via pip doesn't work for obvious reasons

bluescarni commented 3 years ago

@Epse porting pygmo/pagmo to ARM should be straightforward, as there is essentially no platform-specific code in either library.

After this is done, we should enable ARM builds for pagmo/pygmo in conda-forge. This also should not be an issue. Once this is done, you should be able to install the ARM version of pygmo via miniforge:

https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge

I don't anticipate having the bandwidth to maintain a pip ARM build, unless someone from the community is willing to step up.

I'll put this in the TODO list for the next pagmo/pygmo version, but it will take some time.

bluescarni commented 3 years ago

@Epse pagmo/pygmo 2.18 now support ARM and PowerPC processors. Conda packages for these architectures should be available shortly.

Note that, although pagmo/pygmo should work on 32-bit ARM, we have currently no way of testing this, as the main CI providers only support 64-bit ARM CPUs.

I'll close this report for now, please feel free to reopen if needed.