How to: Get Tolaria to work on ARM64 processors

[dennisproppe]

Hi Everybody,

I am using a Chromebook with an ARM64 Processor and, as there is no package for tolaria available, I built one for me.
The process is straightforward, if one remembers to use pnpm instead of npm to build it:

Building Tolaria for Linux ARM64 on Chromebook (Crostini)

Prerequisites

Install system dependencies:

sudo apt install libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev build-essential curl wget file \
  libxdo-dev libssl-dev libayatana-appindicator3-dev librsvg2-dev \
  libsoup-3.0-dev patchelf

Install Rust:

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
source ~/.cargo/env

Install Node.js via nvm:

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.7/install.sh | bash

Close and reopen the terminal so that nvm is available in PATH.

nvm install --lts

Install pnpm:

npm install -g pnpm

Clone the repo and install dependencies:

git clone https://github.com/refactoringhq/tolaria.git
cd tolaria
pnpm install
pnpm approve-builds

Build

pnpm tauri build

The first build takes 20–30 minutes on ARM. When finished, the completed packages are located at:

src-tauri/target/release/bundle/deb/Tolaria_0.1.0_arm64.deb

Install

sudo dpkg -i src-tauri/target/release/bundle/deb/Tolaria_0.1.0_arm64.deb

Launch

/usr/bin/Tolaria

[LucaRonin]

This is awesome Dennis! Thank you for sharing.

Is everything working well then? Anything that breaks?

[dennisproppe]

Up to now it works exactly the same as on my Mac, so very happy with the outcome!

[erijaco]

Thank you, @dennisproppe, for this detailed guide . Successfully build it for ARM 64 on a ThinkStation PGX running DGX OS (Ubuntu) (NVIDIA DGX Spark - family).

However, I found that there are issues with the rendering from WebKit (renders white box) when launching Tolaria normally.
With disabled compositing mode Tolaria runs without any issues:

WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 /usr/bin/tolaria