macOS ARM pre-compiled binaries

[JamieMagee]

GitHub hosted runners for macOS ARM are currently in public preview¹. Whenever they go GA, would be be possible to pre-compile node-re2 binaries for them?

Footnotes

1. https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/528 ↩

[uhop]

That would be awesome. When they are available, I’ll try.

[uhop]

Released in https://github.com/uhop/node-re2/releases/tag/1.18.1

[uhop]

For now, I do them manually from my laptop.

[viceice]

what's the difference between the darwin builds and the arm64 builds. We've again some issues with re2 being very slow because it needs to be rebuild on our linux/arm64 docker images

#6 115.1 npm ERR! Trying https://github.com/uhop/node-re2/releases/download/1.19.1/linux-arm64-108.br ...
#6 115.1 npm ERR! Trying https://github.com/uhop/node-re2/releases/download/1.19.1/linux-arm64-108.gz ...
#6 115.1 npm ERR! Building locally ...
#6 115.1 npm ERR!
#6 115.1 npm ERR! > re2@1.19.1 rebuild
#6 115.1 npm ERR! > node-gyp rebuild

[uhop]

See https://github.com/uhop/install-artifact-from-github/wiki/Install-from-cache#command-line-parameters for more details. The page explains how a fetcher interpolates a name.

Essentially a binary extension has 3 major variables: OS, CPU, and ABI. ABI is more-or-less a Node version, e.g., Node 19 and Node 20 have different ABIs.

I don’t do builds outside of standard runners provided by GitHub Actions. I ran a custom build on my laptop for darwin-arm64. It looks like you have a suitable custom runner. I suggest you exploring a private mirror: https://github.com/uhop/node-re2/wiki/Precompiled-versions#private-mirrors

It will allow you to build the linux-arm64 version and reuse it across your worker images.

[viceice]

ok, will try that mirror thing :)