On 6/20/23 2:24 AM, Ben Westover wrote:
> Even before trying to package this program, I couldn't get it to
> build on architectures other than amd64, which is kind of
> unacceptable.
So, I did some more research after this, and I found out some things:
1. One of the libraries it uses only supports 64 bit architectures, and
another only supports x86 (and ARM after I got a patch merged), so
only the amd64 and arm64 architectures would be supported.
2. The build script for the GUI arbitrarily won't let you build on
ARM64 unless you're on macOS. In my bug report [1], the Proton team
didn't give any practical reason for this other than "ARM on Linux
is not supported" even though it builds and runs fine once you apply
a one-line change to that build script to allow ARM builds on Linux.
So, with a simple patch, you can upgrade the number of supported
architectures from 1 to 2. That 64-bit-only library is pretty annoying.
--
Ben Westover
[1] https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-bridge/issues/398
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