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Hi,

Sorry if this has been asked before - I can't see it in the search, but it's not the easiest thing to search on...

If I understand correctly, we now have ARM support for Macs, and for Raspberry Pi devices, but not Windows. With a number of manufacturers offering Windows on ARM as a more mainstream device, is there any chance that we might get an ARM compiler option for Windows at some point?

If so, would cross-compilation be an option, or would we need an ARM device to compile the ARM binaries?

Sorry - didn't find that thread earlier.

But it's also from 2022, and things have maybe moved on a bit now. We're starting to see ARM-based devices appearing as part of the standard range from some manufacturers now. So it's not mainstream quite yet, but it's getting close.

Obviously there will be x86/x64 emulation or it would be a non-starter. So most PB apps would just work. My own interest in this is that I have some utils that we use as part of our automation of the windows installation process, and these need to run in WinPE which tends not to have things like that (e.g. WinPE 64bit has no 32bit subsystem, so all exes must be native 64bit). It seems very likely that WinPE on ARM would also not have the emulation layer and need native ARM binaries.

It's planned

Fred wrote: Wed Jun 12, 2024 12:47 pmIt's planned

Cheers!

Fred wrote: Wed Jun 12, 2024 12:47 pmIt's planned