possibility of Providing binaries for Windows arm 64?

[mzanm]

Hi,
It would be great to have native Windows ARM64 binaries available. While Windows on ARM can emulate x86 and x64 binaries, this comes with a performance overhead.
Thanks so much for considering this!

[BurntSushi]

I guess I'm open to this, but someone will likely need to do the leg work to add it to the release pipeline and test that it works.

[chadbaldwin]

I was hoping I might be able to give this a shot, but it seems Github only offers their Windows ARM64 hosted runners under their Teams and Enterprise plans.

I do, however, see that rust has an arm64 (emulated) target (arm64ec-pc-windows-msvc), so that's at least half way there...

Given that there's currently no free-tier Windows ARM64 hosted instance, I assume this probably isn't on the horizon and would have to be something done locally or maintained separately by someone else until it can be baked into the official test/release pipeline?

[BurntSushi]

That sounds about right assuming that background research is right. And for this to be something I'm willing to accept, I need to 1) be able to maintain it and 2) rely on it to work somewhat reliably. Debugging CI on release failures is a big time sink and probably why I don't do releases more often. So for example, "hey let's depend on this GitHub Action that was just published and has 5 commits" probably won't fly.