Re: Support for Windows on Arm

Martin Storsjö <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.videolan.vlc.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 9 Sep 2022, Pierrick Bouvier wrote:

>>> Sure, using your own private machine for that is not a solution.
>> 
>>> If we could provide a physical windows on arm machine (or VM on Azure), 
>>> would
>>> that solve the problem for you? You can get access to it, and we can help
>>> with setting this up.
>> 
>> For plain building of VLC, that shouldn't be needed. VLC for Windows is
>> best built cross compiled anyway - and that can be done on their existing
>> linux based CI. They'd primarily need to add such a build configuration
>> and place the builds somewhere.
>> 
>> For actual testing, I do have actual Windows on ARM HW too - but it's old
>> and slow - having access to a VM on Azure would certainly come in handy
>> every now and then!
>> 
>
> If you need it intermittently, one of our lab machine can be a good solution! 
> (at least, it's "free"). We prefer to use VM when they will be used 
> continuously (as it's paid per hour).

That sounds great - how do I get access to one of your lab machines? :-)

Yes, continuously used machines tend to cost a bit. BTW, what's the 
situation with ARM VMs on Azure at the moment - are they available for the 
general public already, or only for limited sets of users?

// Martin

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