Support Windows ARM64

[duncanmak]

I've been using a Surface Pro X as a main machine and I'm interested in using Deno on it.

So far, I've been using the Linux/ARM64 builds made by @LukeChannings, https://github.com/LukeChannings/deno-arm64, they work well in WSL2.

It would be even nicer to use if I can run it natively in Windows instead.

I found this blog post about supporting Windows ARM64: https://patriksvensson.se/2020/05/targeting-arm-for-windows-in-rust/

[LukeChannings]

This would suffer from the same cross-compilation issues that Linux does [1]. Since Microsoft don't license ARM64 Windows I doubt that there'll be support for compiling in CI via a VM.

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[duncanmak]

I started looking into this, and I've discovered there are other bugs that need to be fixed before we can get Deno to build.

Ring isn't working right now

• Windows arm64 support (aarch64-pc-windows-msvc) briansmith/ring#1167
• Windows ARM64 support briansmith/ring#1339
• Error compiling on aarch64-pc-windows-msvc briansmith/ring#1461

[awakecoding]

I've got a working, temporary solution to build against a patched ring 0.16.20 release for Windows ARM64, see instructions here if it can help: briansmith/ring#1514 (comment)

[duncanmak]

There's now a new ring release, I'm gonna try to find some time to try this again by upgrading to the new Ring release.

[gamedevsam]

Supporting Windows on ARM natively is table stakes, my expectation is that I can use deno compile to target x86_64 Win, Linux and also ARM Mac, Windows, Linux.

[markhughes]

@gamedevsam I'm looking for the same, as more business and consumer computers are moving towards ARM architecture. I can see Deno supports Mac and Linux on ARM though.

I believe an older 1.x version of Deno supported Windows on ARM?