Re: [INTERNALS-WIN] Ship PHP builds for Windows on arm64?

Le 28/08/2024 à 23:45, Bilge a écrit :
> On 28/08/2024 20:16, Christoph M. Becker wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> cross-posting for reach (guess that only few read internals-win).
>>
>> We had a feature request the other day to ship PHP builds for Windows on
>> arm64[1].  It seems to me that Windows on arm64 has left its infancy,
>> and we may not want to fall too far behind in supporting that platform.
>>
>> We already have basic support for doing PHP builds for Windows on arm64
>> for a few years, but there are still two major issues:
>>
>> (1) The libraries on which several extensions rely are not yet available
>> for Windows on arm64; at least the winlib-builder[2] would need to be
>> improved in this regard, but of course, some libraries may not even
>> support Windows on arm64 yet.
>>
>> (2) To my knowledge, none of the core developers has a Windows on arm64
>> environment available, and I presume that nobody wants to run an arm64
>> emulator on an x64 machine.  And since there are no public GH runners
>> for that platform (that might change in a couple of months, though[3]),
>> we cannot actually test (let alone develop) these builds.
>>
>> If we ship builds with what we have now, we may get user feedback, and
>> might be able to fix an issue or three.  And we may even get some help
>> regarding (1), so (hope dies last) we might be able to ship a full
>> fledged PHP 8.4.0 for Windows on arm64.
>>
>> Therefore I suggest to make PHP 8.4 builds for Windows on arm64
>> available on <https://windows.php.net/>, either on the QA releases page,
>> or on the snapshots page, but to clearly mark these as highly
>> experimental and incomplete.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> [1] <https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/15610>
>> [2] <https://github.com/winlibs/winlib-builder>
>> [3]
>> <https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/arm64-on-github-actions-powering-faster-more-efficient-build-systems/> 
>>
>>
>> Christoph
>
> I think that, unless and until GHA supports Win arm64, why should PHP? 
> GitHub is owned by Microsoft, so they will add such runners when they 
> see value in it.
>
> Cheers,
> Bilge

The ARM64 runners is already in beta for enterprise on GitHub Action

https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-github-hosted-runners/using-larger-runners/about-larger-runners#specifications-for-general-larger-runners

Best regards,

Jean-Baptiste