ARM support

[SteveDesmond-ca]

Trying to run a benchmark on my Raspberry Pi, I get the following when BDN tries to build the benchmark:

// Validating benchmarks:
// ***** Building 9 benchmark(s) in Parallel: Start   *****
// ***** Done, took 00:05:45 (345.55 sec)   *****
// **************************
// Benchmark: FileSystemWrappers.staticRead: DefaultJob
// *** Execute ***
// Launch: 1 / 1

Unhandled Exception: System.BadImageFormatException: Could not load file or assembly '/home/usr/project/bin/Release/netcoreapp2.1/7c4f30e2-a05d-4d8b-8bca-7dd1346222b7/bin/Release/netcoreapp2.1/7c4f30e2-a05d-4d8b-8bca-7dd1346222b7.dll'. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format.

Is ARM currently supported as a target architecture, specifically for .NET Core 2.1? If so, are there any special steps to get it running?

[adamsitnik]

Hi @SteveDesmond-ca

It looks that to run a .NET Core app on Raspberry Pi, we should publish a self-contained app and the run it.

Unfortunately, our default toolchain just builds the app and tries to run it with dotnet $pathToDll

However, we have the code that does that for the purpose of our CoreRT toolchain. Please let me know if you are interested in getting it work. If you are, I can provide more hints how to put it all together and get it work.

[AndreyAkinshin]

@adamsitnik, I guess, the InProcess toolchain should work for this case.

[adamsitnik]

@AndreyAkinshin good point, for some reason I forgot about it

[adamsitnik]

Fixed by #979