Windows ARM64

[Edward Hoffman]

Sorry. I misinterpreted the announcement. Is Windows ARM64 open source?

> On Jan 2, 2024, at 1:51 PM, Maxim Dounin <mdounin at mdounin.ru> wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
>> On Tue, Jan 02, 2024 at 11:03:03AM +0000, Anthony Roberts wrote:
>> 
>> A small introduction - I work on Linaro's Windows on Arm enablement team,
>> and we work on porting/enabling various open-source projects for the
>> platform.
>> 
>> We have recently done a small investigation, and it turns out nginx can be
>> compiled OOB on Windows ARM64 platforms with VS2022 - an example run from
>> our internal nightlies can be seen here:
>> https://gitlab.com/Linaro/windowsonarm/packages/nginx/-/jobs/5742208111
> 
> Yep, there shouldn't be any problems with building, at least when
> building nginx itself and/or when building OpenSSL with "no-asm".  
> In more sophisticated cases, some adjustment might be needed, see
> https://hg.nginx.org/nginx/rev/3c4d81ea1338 for an example.
> 
> If you'll find any issues and/or need any help, don't hesitate to
> write here or in the nginx-devel@ mailing list.
> 
>> With the advent of things like Microsoft's Azure Windows ARM64
>> instances[0], and various client devices, it is a growing platform. Our
>> partners (Microsoft and Qualcomm) would be interested in seeing a release!
>> 
>> Is an official Windows ARM64 build something you have considered? Would you
>> consider it?
> 
> As of now, there are no plans to publish additional official nginx
> for Windows builds.
> 
> Note well that nginx for Windows is in beta and unlikely to be
> considered production ready in the foreseeable future
> (https://nginx.org/en/docs/windows.html).  Its main purpose is to
> facilitate web development directly on Windows devices.
> 
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