Arcemu now has initial support for aarch64/ARM64 platform on both Linux and Windows

[dfighter1985]

ARM is a platform that is rapidly spreading. There are many cheap Linux based devices built on ARM processors, like the Raspberry PI, and Qualcomm (with the help of Microsoft) inspired by the successes of the ARM based Apple computers is now attacking the PC market.

All this means is that ARM is a platform that deserves some attention.

Because of all this, inspired and guided by Artox's patch in pr #386 I've successfully managed to make Arcemu compatible with the aarch64/ARM64 platform.

This means that Arcemu can be compiled, and used on those platforms.

For now only Ubuntu 22.04 for aarch64, and Windows 10 for ARM64 (vis cross-compiling) is supported.

If you don't have ARM based devices but would like to try it anyway, you can do so via QEMU, and I've written guides for this:

• Windows for ARM via QEMU
• Ubuntu 22.04 for aarch64 on QEMU

Building steps

Ubuntu 22.04 for aarch64

• Just build as you would on an amd64 platform, nothing special

Windows

Note: The process is only tested with cross-building from amd64 to ARM64 with Visual Studio 2017. This means that you build for arm on a Windows for x86/amd64, then you have to copy the built files to the Windows for ARM machine.

• Install the ARM64 compiler, libraries, and Windows SDK in the Visual Studio 2017 installer
• In CMake set the “Optional platform for generator” to ARM64
• Configure and Generate
• Open the generated solution then build and install
• Copy the files to the ARM machine and run there

Known bugs

• On Windows 10 for ARM64 the Arcemu Python Engine crashes on startup, so you cannot yet use it on this platform.

[dfighter1985]

The latest commit 025644b fixed Arcemu Python Engine on Windows/aarch64.

[dfighter1985]

Got my Raspberry not long ago, so I will be able to try Arcemu out on it soon enough: