Linux ARM64

[pol2095]

Hello,

in AIR 33.1.1.856 Release Notes it's mentionned page 7 in section 2.3 AIR for Linux – Restrictions : Currently only x86_64 support – ARM64 is planned
an Air support for Linux ARM64 version is-it planned by Harman for soon ?

Thanks

[ajwfrost]

Planned, yes, and we'd be aiming to get support for this done towards the end of this year.
thanks

[pol2095]

Great news, thanks.

[pol2095]

Any news for ARM64 support on Linux ?

[ajwfrost]

Hi @pol2095 - sorry, a few other things got higher priority so we didn't manage to get this one completed. I'll see if we can get it done as a background task in the near future..

[pol2095]

Thanks @ajwfrost, Windows ARM64 is-it planned too ?

[ajwfrost]

Not sure we've had much demand for Windows ARM64! It appears to be possible to run x86-based apps still though, so I'm not sure whether it's immediately necessary...? The commercial justification may be tricky to get a proper Windows-ARM64 version of AIR done..

thanks

[pol2095]

I tried the emulation x86, it's not very fast, AIR x64 app work too on Windows ARM emulation.

For x86 ANE, I needed to add __cdecl
__declspec(dllexport) void __cdecl ExtensionInitializer(void** extData,...

[pol2095]

Any news for ARM64 support on Linux ?

[pol2095]

Any news about SDK AIR 51.0 ?

[ajwfrost]

I'd hoped to get it out before Christmas! Continuing to have to spend a fair bit of the team's efforts on 50.2 fixes though.. but it's nearly there - the AS3 documentation is now 99% ready, we were going to build up a bit of documentation around the new APIs. They're not all completed but they're more or less ready to release in a pre-release version, so essentially (a) existing functionality should be on par with 50.2, but (b) new functionality may not be completed.

The Linux arm64 stuff is there, our plan is to continue to just have a single "AIR SDK for Linux" package, and then to provide a simple "configure" script to switch it so that it's correct for the target machine.

Latest plan then:

• release 50.2.4.3 at the start of next week
• release 51.0.0.1 by the end of the month

thanks

[pol2095]

Any news about AIR SDK 51.0 ?

[ajwfrost]

We've been working on documentation .. should be able to get it out this coming week. Bit delayed because of the other issues we found that resulted in 50.2.4.4, sorry!

[pol2095]

Thanks, great job.

[pol2095]

I tried to use Air SDK 51.0.0.2 preview on a RPi5 using Ubuntu 23.10 ARM64 and I have this message error ?
adl : Exec format error
and adt :
Packaging failed. Packager internal error

[ajwfrost]

Thanks for the information here! we'll check on that ADT packaging issue and get that sorted.
For the Starling one, do you have a complete test case you could share for this, to save a bit of time here? Curious that it depends on the compiler type/version...
thanks

[pol2095]

it's easy to reproduce using starling.showStats :
Main.as

package
{
	import com.Test;
	
	import flash.display.Sprite;
	import flash.events.Event;
	import flash.display.StageAlign;
	import flash.display.StageScaleMode;
	
	import starling.core.Starling;
	
	public class Main extends Sprite
	{
		private var starling:Starling;
		
		public function Main()
		{
			this.addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init);
		}
		
		private function init(event:Event):void
		{
			this.removeEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init);
			stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;
			stage.align = StageAlign.TOP_LEFT;
			starling = new Starling(Test, stage);
			starling.showStats = true;
			starling.supportHighResolutions = true;
			starling.start();
		}
	}
}

and com/Test.as

package com
{
	import starling.display.Sprite;
	
	public class Test extends Sprite
	{
		public function Test()
		{
			//	
		}
	}
}

starling.showStats is not correctly displayed using ASC 2.0 on Ubuntu 23.10 on Raspberry Pi 5
main.swf created on Windows 11 with ASC 2.0, same result
I don't have this behavior on Ubuntu 22.04 x86-64

application.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<application xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/51.0">
	<id>com.Test</id>
	<versionNumber>0.0.1</versionNumber>
	<filename>Test</filename>
	<name>Test</name> 
	<initialWindow>
		<content>main.swf</content>
		<visible>true</visible>
		<renderMode>direct</renderMode>
		<depthAndStencil>true</depthAndStencil>
		<requestedDisplayResolution>high</requestedDisplayResolution>
	</initialWindow>
</application>

[pol2095]

Any news about ANEs ADT packaging issue ?

[ajwfrost]

Yes, sorry for the delay - we have a new release going through the process at the moment, should be out towards the end of this week..

[pol2095]

Thanks, using Air SDK 50.0.0.4, ANEs ADT packaging is fixed.