Carlos Saltos
Posted on January 31, 2022
What?
Just some quick steps to compile Elm for Linux arm64 since the official distribution does not support ARM yet.
How?
Get Debian GNU/Linux Bullseye 11 arm64 ready and run these commands:
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential \
automake \
autotools-dev \
make \
g++ \
ca-certificates \
software-properties-common \
apt-transport-https \
lsb-base \
lsb-release \
zlib1g-dev \
libpcre3-dev \
libcurl4-openssl-dev \
libc-dev \
libxml2-dev \
libsnmp-dev \
libssh2-1-dev \
libevent-dev \
libopenipmi-dev \
libpng-dev \
pkg-config \
libfontconfig1 \
git \
bzip2 \
zip \
unzip \
musl-dev \
ghc \
cabal-install \
libmpfr-dev
git clone https://github.com/elm/compiler.git
cd compiler
git checkout 0.19.1
rm worker/elm.cabal
cabal new-update
cabal new-configure
cabal new-build
Wait for a while and the binary should be hopefully at compiler/dist-newstyle/build/aarch64-linux/ghc-*/elm-0.19.1/x/elm/build/elm/elm
IMPORTANT: Please ensure you have at least 4 gigas RAM memory available for the compilation to work
Who?
As always a big thank you to Evan Czaplicki and the wonderful people creating and maintaining Elm.
Some references for other Linux distributions and compilation optimizations may be found at https://github.com/elm/compiler/blob/0.19.1/installers/linux/Dockerfile and https://gist.github.com/rlefevre/1523f47e75310e28eee243c9c5651ac9
For learning more about Elm please go to Elm The Complete Guide
Posted on January 31, 2022
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