arm64 support

[xgdgsc]

https://github.com/mjishnu/alt-app-installer/blob/3619afce0a348b3e197daa5cc667a59631fe7306/app/modules/url_gen.py#L27

I had to change this to return "arm64" to download successfully.

The arm version Python PyQt6 has some installation issues so I have to run the x64 Python version. Maybe adding an arm64 checkbox now can be fine.

And how to do the packaging to exe?

[mjishnu]

hey would you be willing to test this, i do not own an arm pc so was unable to test it

import platform

def os_arc():
    if platform.machine().endswith("64"):
        return "x64"
    if platform.machine().endswith("32") or platform.machine().endswith("86"):
        return "x86"
    if platform.machine().endswith("arm64"):
        return "arm64 endswith success"
    if platform.machine().endswith("arm"):
        return "arm endswith success"
    if platform.machine().startswith("arm64"):
        return "arm64 startswith success"
    if platform.machine().startswith("arm"):
        return "arm startswith success"
    return platform.machine()

print(os_arc())

what does the output shows ?

if this works we dont need a toggle it will automatically figure it out, the packaging is done using pyinstaller

[xgdgsc]

Left is x64 version of Python running on arm and right is native arm64.

The problem for me is installing pyqt6 on arm64 python. Or provide a cli version could be fine.

[mjishnu]

import platform

def os_arc():
    machine = platform.machine().lower()

    if machine.endswith("arm64"):
        return "arm64"
    if machine().endswith("64"):
        return "x64"
    if machine.endswith("32") or machine.endswith("86"):
        return "x86"
    else:
        return "arm"

print(os_arc())

can you try now, i see that even if i do a logic like this it would be waste since you are not able to run it in arm64 python but still in future it might work so if you can please provide output of this test it would be great.

The problem for me is installing pyqt6 on arm64 python. Or provide a cli version could be fine.

try older version of pyqt, currently i am rewriting the program from scratch to c#, and not doing any major changes. let me see what i can do about cli if it aint too complicated i would implement it.

[xgdgsc]

This is fine.

>>> print(os_arc())
arm64

c# can compile arm version pretty easily.

[mjishnu]

here is a cli version of alt app installer: https://github.com/mjishnu/alt-app-installer-cli

[xgdgsc]

Guess this is because arm python cannot load the dll?

[mjishnu]

did you install python net

[mjishnu]

Guess this is because arm python cannot load the dll?

this new release should fix it, no longer using python net using subprocess module instead https://github.com/mjishnu/alt-app-installer-cli/releases/tag/v1.0.1

[xgdgsc]

Great. It works. Might as well adding argument for downloading for other manually specified architecture, rather than relying on the interpreter arch?