Provide binary for arm64 architecture (Linux)

[sv2dev]

We need to run e2e tests on a device with ARM 7 architecture. Could you provide binaries for this architecture, please?
I would like to move all the e2e tests in a customer project to cypress, since they are a lot faster than Selenium. Only the missing binary is holding be back.

[bahmutov]

Electron has builts for arm7 and arm64 https://electronjs.org/docs/tutorial/support#linux the challenge would be to build Cypress on CI. For example CircleCI does not support ARM builds at the moment

[sv2dev]

Thanks for the feedback, @bahmutov.
Is there a way to build the binary myself as a workaround for now?

[bahmutov]

Yes, you can build the test binary yourself following https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/blob/develop/DEPLOY.md#building-the-binary - usually, you just need to run a single script to build it.

[bjclark13]

@svi3c were you able to build Cypress on your ARM machine?

[sv2dev]

@bjclark13 sorry, I did not try it yet. The priority of the task was decreased in my project.

[dfellis]

I had a need for this, myself, but the original yarn/npm install in the repo failed to install node-sass, as an FYI. An abbreviated portion of the install logs:

[web-config:install ] npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
[web-config:install ] npm ERR! errno 1
[web-config:install ] npm ERR! node-sass@4.11.0 postinstall: `node scripts/build.js`
[web-config:install ] npm ERR! Exit status 1
[web-config:install ] npm ERR! 
[web-config:install ] npm ERR! Failed at the node-sass@4.11.0 postinstall script.
[web-config:install ] npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
[web-config:install ] 
[web-config:install ] npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
[web-config:install ] npm ERR!     /home/damocles/.npm/_logs/2020-06-09T23_12_11_377Z-debug.log
[server:install     ] npm WARN lifecycle The node binary used for scripts is /tmp/yarn--1591743866425-0.8260163179815476/node but npm is using /home/damocles/.nvm/versions/node/v10.21.0/bin/node itself. Use the `--scripts-prepend-node-path` option to include the path for the node binary npm was executed with.
[server:install     ] prebuild-install WARN install No prebuilt binaries found (target=10.21.0 runtime=node arch=arm64 libc= platform=linux)
[server:install     ] npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@^1.2.7 (node_modules/@cypress/browserify-preprocessor/node_modules/chokidar/node_modules/fsevents):
[server:install     ] npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@1.2.13: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"arm64"})
[server:install     ] npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: @ffmpeg-installer/win32-ia32@4.1.0 (node_modules/@ffmpeg-installer/ffmpeg/node_modules/@ffmpeg-installer/win32-ia32):
[server:install     ] npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for @ffmpeg-installer/win32-ia32@4.1.0: wanted {"os":"win32","arch":"ia32"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"arm64"})
[server:install     ] npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: @ffmpeg-installer/linux-x64@4.1.0 (node_modules/@ffmpeg-installer/ffmpeg/node_modules/@ffmpeg-installer/linux-x64):
[server:install     ] npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for @ffmpeg-installer/linux-x64@4.1.0: wanted {"os":"linux","arch":"x64"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"arm64"})
[server:install     ] npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: @ffmpeg-installer/win32-x64@4.1.0 (node_modules/@ffmpeg-installer/ffmpeg/node_modules/@ffmpeg-installer/win32-x64):
[server:install     ] npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for @ffmpeg-installer/win32-x64@4.1.0: wanted {"os":"win32","arch":"x64"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"arm64"})
[server:install     ] npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: @ffmpeg-installer/darwin-x64@4.1.0 (node_modules/@ffmpeg-installer/ffmpeg/node_modules/@ffmpeg-installer/darwin-x64):
[server:install     ] npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for @ffmpeg-installer/darwin-x64@4.1.0: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"x64"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"arm64"})
[server:install     ] npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: @ffmpeg-installer/linux-ia32@4.1.0 (node_modules/@ffmpeg-installer/ffmpeg/node_modules/@ffmpeg-installer/linux-ia32):
[server:install     ] npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for @ffmpeg-installer/linux-ia32@4.1.0: wanted {"os":"linux","arch":"ia32"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"arm64"})
[server:install     ] npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: @ffmpeg-installer/linux-arm@4.1.3 (node_modules/@ffmpeg-installer/ffmpeg/node_modules/@ffmpeg-installer/linux-arm):
[server:install     ] npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for @ffmpeg-installer/linux-arm@4.1.3: wanted {"os":"linux","arch":"arm"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"arm64"})
[server:install     ] npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: @ffmpeg-installer/linux-arm64@4.1.3 (node_modules/@ffmpeg-installer/ffmpeg/node_modules/@ffmpeg-installer/linux-arm64):
[server:install     ] npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for @ffmpeg-installer/linux-arm64@4.1.3: wanted {"os":"linux","arch":"arm"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"arm64"})
[server:install     ] npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@^2.0.6 (node_modules/chokidar/node_modules/fsevents):
[server:install     ] npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@2.1.3: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"arm64"})
[server:install     ] npm WARN mocha-teamcity-reporter@3.0.0 requires a peer of mocha@>=3.5.0 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
[server:install     ] 

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! cypress@3.4.1 all: `node ./scripts/run.js "install"`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the cypress@3.4.1 all script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/damocles/.npm/_logs/2020-06-09T23_13_11_494Z-debug.log
error Command failed with exit code 1.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/install for documentation about this command.

I'm also on Node 10, so I rewound the repo to: 1a4ac7d

I will probably switch to an Intel machine in a few hours to complete my immediate task and then come back to this problem in the future (it may also prompt me to update the backend to use node 12 instead of 10).

@bahmutov @dfellis @svi3c @jennifer-shehane

I am also interested in armv8 cypress build.

If I use the cypress version 4.8.0 via npm....on armv8 machine, I get following error

It looks like this is your first time using Cypress: 4.8.0

Verifying Cypress can run /home/travis/.cache/Cypress/4.8.0/Cypress [started]
Verifying Cypress can run /home/travis/.cache/Cypress/4.8.0/Cypress [failed]

Cypress failed to start.

This is usually caused by a missing library or dependency.
The error below should indicate which dependency is missing.
https://on.cypress.io/required-dependencies
If you are using Docker, we provide containers with all required dependencies installed.
----------
/home/travis/.cache/Cypress/4.8.0/Cypress/Cypress: 3: /home/travis/.cache/Cypress/4.8.0/Cypress/Cypress: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string
----------

My system is ubuntu Xenial.
For the fix, I have installed these dependencies (libgtk2.0-0 libgtk-3-0 libgbm-dev libnotify-dev libgconf-2-4 libnss3 libxss1 libasound2 libxtst6 xauth xvfb) via apt-get, but no help.

I guess cypress can not be installed on ARMv8 via npm???

I took the source code and built it following this https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/blob/develop/DEPLOY.md
Here are the steps

1. increment the version in package.json
2. yarn build --scope cypress

But this is failing for a lot of dependencies like postinstall, lerna and many more. Even installing these dependecies is not helping me to build my own cypress on armv8 machine.

Can you please check if I am following the correct steps here?? Or do I need to execute something else??

[jbarbier-prisma]

@bahmutov @dfellis @svi3c @jennifer-shehane

I am also interested in armv8 cypress build.

If I use the cypress version 4.8.0 via npm....on armv8 machine, I get following error

It looks like this is your first time using Cypress: 4.8.0

Verifying Cypress can run /home/travis/.cache/Cypress/4.8.0/Cypress [started]
Verifying Cypress can run /home/travis/.cache/Cypress/4.8.0/Cypress [failed]

Cypress failed to start.

This is usually caused by a missing library or dependency.
The error below should indicate which dependency is missing.
https://on.cypress.io/required-dependencies
If you are using Docker, we provide containers with all required dependencies installed.
----------
/home/travis/.cache/Cypress/4.8.0/Cypress/Cypress: 3: /home/travis/.cache/Cypress/4.8.0/Cypress/Cypress: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string
----------

My system is ubuntu Xenial.
For the fix, I have installed these dependencies (libgtk2.0-0 libgtk-3-0 libgbm-dev libnotify-dev libgconf-2-4 libnss3 libxss1 libasound2 libxtst6 xauth xvfb) via apt-get, but no help.

I guess cypress can not be installed on ARMv8 via npm???

I took the source code and built it following this https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/blob/develop/DEPLOY.md
Here are the steps

1. increment the version in package.json
2. yarn build --scope cypress

But this is failing for a lot of dependencies like postinstall, lerna and many more. Even installing these dependecies is not helping me to build my own cypress on armv8 machine.

Can you please check if I am following the correct steps here?? Or do I need to execute something else??

Have you found a solution?
I'm trying to install Cypress on my Raspberry pi 4B and I have the same problem ...: /

[shiro]

also failing on postinstall with a raspi 4b:

@packages/electron: error Command failed with exit code 1.
lerna ERR! yarn run build exited 1 in '@packages/electron'
lerna WARN complete Waiting for 4 child processes to exit. CTRL-C to exit immediately.
error Command failed with exit code 1.
error Command failed with exit code 1.

    at checkExecSyncError (node:child_process:636:11)
    at execSync (node:child_process:672:15)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/shiro/tmp/cypress/node_modules/postinstall-postinstall/run.js:14:5)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1102:14)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1131:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:967:32)
    at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:807:14)
    at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (node:internal/modules/run_main:76:12)
    at node:internal/main/run_main_module:17:47 {
  status: 1,
  signal: null,
  output: [
    null,
    Buffer(5628) [Uint8Array] [
      121,  97, 114, 110,  32, 114, 117, 110,  32, 118,  49,  46,
       50,  50,  46,  49,  48,  10,  36,  32,  46,  47, 115,  99,
      114, 105, 112, 116, 115,  47, 114, 117, 110,  45, 105, 102,
       45, 110, 111, 116,  45,  99, 105,  46, 115, 104,  32, 121, [more uints...]

[jennifer-shehane]

@dfellis node-sass has been removed as a dependency from Cypress in 6.3.0.

[jennifer-shehane]

There's a blog post explaining how to run Cypress on Apple's latest ARM-based M1 chip here: https://cypress.io/blog/2021/01/20/running-cypress-on-the-apple-m1-silicon-arm-architecture-using-rosetta-2/