Note: With these changes, the project successfully compiles natively on local Windows ARM64 setup without any issues

Hi @Greenie0701, thank you so much for looking into this! Would you be able to include the other changes in the same PR? Were you able to verify that it actually works on an ARM machine, too? Unfortunately I don't own such a device so it's hard for me to check.

@srwi sure, I can include those changes in the same PR, but I need your help for adding support in inno setup for arm64. Could you provide some information about how we can add support for new architecture in current inno installer scripts?

Sounds good, I can work on the installer!

Were you able to fully test the arm version with Everything yet?

@srwi thanks a lot, please let me know once you have added support for installer. I can help you on supporting CI for this platform.

Regarding the validation/testing, can you provide some information on how we can run test or validate the build to make sure that the build is consistent?

Unfortunately there are no automatic tests so the best way to test if it works is building the launcher project locally and running the EverythingToolbar. Launcher.exe. Alongside a running Everything instance it should provide search results correctly.

I could start working on the installer once the functionality on ARM has been confirmed. I think it's too early to work on that already.

Thanks again for looking into it! 🙂

@srwi Just now I tested on my local Windows ARM64 device, the application launches successfully and runs natively on Windows ARM.
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That's great, thank you for checking!

I'm currently traveling, but I can look into the required steps for the installer some time next week!

Hi, I added an arm64 installer on branch arm64-installer.

Hi, I added an arm64 installer on branch arm64-installer.

Sure thanks for the help, Will test this locally and update here with observation

@srwi the installer setup is working fine, can you add those changes in the development branch? So that I can setup CI for Windows ARM to generate binaries

Of course, just merged the changes into develop!

Hi @srwi
Just now pushed few changes to support CI for Windows ARM to generate binaries. Please let me know, if there is additional changes are required.

Looks very good! Were you able to verify the arm64 build artifact from the Github Actions workflow also works fine? If so, we can merge it and the next release will run on arm64! 🙂

Looks very good! Were you able to verify the arm64 build artifact from the Github Actions workflow also works fine? If so, we can merge it and the next release will run on arm64! 🙂

Hi @srwi

Yeah, I have made a dry run in my fork and the generated artifacts contains the right contents. I tested both x64 and Arm64 versions on their corresponding device, working fine as expected

Thanks

Cool, thanks again for the contribution!