Support for Win 10 ARM64

[newcworld001]

Currently for Windows there is only the x64 version, and it can't run on ARM64 devices such as Surface Pro X. Adding support would be fantastic.

[sunderme]

I am not aware that a cross-compile suit for arm64 exist (msys2 or mxe.cc). Hence we can't build it automatically.

[Gomesz785]

Adding support would be fantastic. Yeah all those raspberry-pis and surfaces will rock then!!!

[sunderme]

arm works fine under linux

[minnyres]

I have built texstudio for Windows ARM4 with MSVC. The binary files and compiling instructions can be found here: https://github.com/minnyres/texstudio-windows-arm64.

It is natively built on a Windows ARM64 device, but cross compiling from Windows x64 is also possible.

[sunderme]

It would need to build automatically via github actions. There will not be any manual builds.

[minnyres]

It is possible to build automatically via github actions.

Native build on ARM64 machines certainly works, but there is currently no GitHub-hosted Windows ARM64 runner, so a self-hosted runner is required. That is how MSYS2 project build the ARM64 packages.

To use GitHub-hosted runners, it can be cross compiled on Windows x64 with MSVC or llvm-mingw toolchain, where the latter also work on Linux. The third-party libraries can be built with vcpkg. It is worth a try though we may met some problems when building Qt.

[minnyres]

Some more comments to Windows packaging

• add_compile_options(-Wno-deprecated-declarations) in cmakelist.txt needs to be removed when compiling with MSVC
• TeXTablet will ask to install .Net framework 3.5 on Windows 10/11. It is better to rebuild with .Net 4 or later.

[sunderme]

maybe to clarify a way forward. I will not put effort in building win/arm builds. (no hardware to test, so would be completely blind) You can fork texstudio and set up an action which builds txs/win on arm. If that works, we can discuss how to merge, if desired.

[minnyres]

It is tested that texstudio for win on arm64 can be built with this workflow. Later I will try to package and test the build.

jobs:

  build-windows-arm64:
    name: Windows on ARM64 build (cross compile with MSVC)
    if: github.event_name == 'push'
    runs-on: windows-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: Fetch tag annotations
        run: git fetch --tags --force

      - name: Set up MSVC develop environment
        uses: ilammy/msvc-dev-cmd@v1.4.1
        with:
          arch: amd64_arm64

      - name: Build dependencies with vcpkg
        uses: johnwason/vcpkg-action@v3
        with:
          pkgs: zlib tiff openjpeg libpng liblzma libjpeg-turbo libiconv freetype bzip2 brotli lcms icu boost-winapi boost-type-traits boost-type-traits boost-throw-exception boost-static-assert boost-preprocessor boost-predef boost-move boost-intrusive boost-integer boost-detail boost-core boost-container-hash boost-container boost-config boost-assert
          triplet: arm64-windows

      - name: Install Qt (host x64)
        uses: jurplel/install-qt-action@v3
        with:
          aqtversion: '==2.1.*'
          version: '6.4.1'
          host: 'windows'
          target: 'desktop'
          arch: 'win64_msvc2019_64'
          modules: 'qt5compat'
          dir: '${{ github.workspace }}'
          set-env: 'false'

      - name: Install Qt (arm64)
        uses: jurplel/install-qt-action@v3
        with:
          aqtversion: '==2.1.*'
          version: '6.4.1'
          host: 'windows'
          target: 'desktop'
          arch: 'win64_msvc2019_arm64'
          modules: 'qtimageformats qt5compat'
          dir: '${{ github.workspace }}'
          set-env: 'false'

      - name: Build poppler
        run: |
          $work_dir = '${{ github.workspace }}'
          $pattern = '[\\]'
          $work_dir = $work_dir -replace $pattern, '/'
          $poppler_ver = "22.11.0"
          $poppler_url = "https://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-$poppler_ver.tar.xz"
          Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $poppler_url -OutFile poppler-$poppler_ver.tar.xz
          7z.exe x poppler-$poppler_ver.tar.xz
          tar -xf poppler-$poppler_ver.tar
          Set-Location poppler-$poppler_ver
          cmake -G "Ninja" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="$work_dir/poppler" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DENABLE_QT5=OFF -DENABLE_QT6=ON -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE="$work_dir/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake" -DVCPKG_TARGET_TRIPLET=arm64-windows -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="$work_dir/Qt/6.4.1/msvc2019_arm64" -DQT_HOST_PATH="$work_dir/Qt/6.4.1/msvc2019_64".
          cmake --build .
          cmake --install .

      - name: Build TeXstudio
        run: |
          $work_dir = '${{ github.workspace }}'
          $pattern = '[\\]'
          $work_dir = $work_dir -replace $pattern, '/'
          Set-Content -Path ".\CMakeLists.txt" -Value (get-content -Path ".\CMakeLists.txt" | Select-String -Pattern 'Wno-deprecated-declarations' -NotMatch)
          New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path ./build
          Set-Location build
          cmake -G "Ninja" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE="$work_dir/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake" -DVCPKG_TARGET_TRIPLET=arm64-windows -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="$work_dir/Qt/6.4.1/msvc2019_arm64;$work_dir/poppler" -DQT_HOST_PATH="$work_dir/Qt/6.4.1/msvc2019_64" ..
          cmake --build .

[minnyres]

A pull request is made for adding a workflow to build for windows on arm64

https://github.com/texstudio-org/texstudio/pull/2748