Missing lwjgl3 natives for windows arm64

[Ali-RS]

Lwjgl3 already supports windows-arm64 natives, we should also add them in jme3-lwjgl3 build.

[stephengold]

Any thoughts on how to test our Engine on a windows-arm64 system?

[Ali-RS]

Not sure, maybe we can make a request on the forum to see if someone with a windows-arm64 system wants to help with testing.

[pavly-gerges]

Any thoughts on how to test our Engine on a windows-arm64 system?

I was glancing youtube a minute ago, and i found a video talking about Windows and Mac Arm DevKits:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/windows-dev-kit-2023/94k0p67w7581?activetab=pivot:techspecstab#tab1547ddad7-34eb-4c42-9c73-f921fce79f90

I gave up on the WOR (Windows On Arm) on Raspberry (and i think it also has GPU issues).

[Ali-RS]

On the other hand, we can just add the required flags to enable running on Windows Arm64 and hope that Java and LWJGL3 work fine on Windows Arm64! 😉

Unless I am missing something!

[pavly-gerges]

We may try to use a server or a virtual machine, but i have no idea if there exist windows arm64 servers somewhere or if oracle vm supports windows arm.

[stephengold]

I can't support announcing features that we can't test and troubleshoot.

For macOS-on-ARM we got free remote access. That seems the most likely path forward for Windows-on-ARM. Either that or someone on the JME team acquires a Windows-on-ARM laptop.

[riccardobl]

Finding a Windows ARM64 machine for rental might be quite challenging, in my opinion, we could approximate a suitable testing environment by utilizing Wine on a Linux or Mac ARM64 machine.

[Ali-RS]

Unless I am missing something!

By the way, I noticed we already have the platform code required to run on arm64 windows in place, which means the necessary part is already done!

https://github.com/jMonkeyEngine/jmonkeyengine/pull/1530/files

So I think anyone still should be able to run their app on the arm windows just by adding the required lwjgl3 runtime natives for arm windows in their gradle build, right?

[pavly-gerges]

Finding a Windows ARM64 machine for rental might be quite challenging, in my opinion, we could approximate a suitable testing environment by utilizing Wine on a Linux or Mac ARM64 machine.

AFAIK, wine has a lot of issues and it is tricky to provide a good debug and to install compatible drivers, I tried a lot to run simple 1999s windows games, but there is a lot to do to get things started, most of time .Net and visual c++ binaries compiled for Linux...

[stephengold]

the necessary part is already done!

Defining an enum value for a platform is easy! In my experience, most of the porting effort goes into testing and troubleshooting.