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jwr1 / interstellar

An app for Mbin and Lemmy, connecting you to the fediverse.
https://kbin.earth/m/interstellar
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Arm64 GNU/Linux flatpak? #32

Open danialbehzadi opened 2 months ago

danialbehzadi commented 2 months ago

Describe the feature you'd like to request

In Flathub and Github releases, interstellar is only packaged for GNU/Linux in amd64.

Please add the arm64 package too.

jwr1 commented 2 months ago

I think it would be great to have arm64 Linux support, but unfortunately, I don't think it's viable at the moment. All of the release files for Interstellar are compiled on GitHub action runners, which unfortunately does not have a Linux arm image yet. An alternative could be cross-compilation, but Flutter does not have support for Linux cross architecture compilation yet either. Further, a third solution would be to compile the app directly on Flathub servers whenever a new release is created, but this won't work either as it's very difficult to compile Flutter apps directly through Flathub, and even if we did get that working, we still wouldn't have raw Linux arm releases (.AppImage and .tar.gz files) in our GitHub releases section (it would only be available straight through Flathub). If someone has any other ideas to get this working, I'm all ears, but I think we might just need to wait this out.

Here are some upstream issues that would help with an arm linux build when resolved: https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/5631 https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/74929 https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/41737