On 27 Jan 2026, at 07:29, Harish Raja Selvan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for the explanation. > I wanted to share that I’ve successfully built libtiff natively on Windows on > ARM64 (X Elite laptop) using the MSVC compiler, without requiring any code > changes. > Since Windows on ARM Docker images are not currently supported, I wanted to > ask whether it would be possible to set up a self-hosted ARM64 runner, if we > are able to provide suitable WoA hardware. > Please let me know your thoughts.
Note that Windows on ARM docker images *are* supported and exist. See https://mcr.microsoft.com/v2/windows/servercore/tags/list and note at the bottom: "ltsc2025-amd64", "ltsc2025-arm64”, Our CI is now using the ltsc2025-amd64 image. But there is an ARM64 version too. The provision of suitable hardware is a kind offer, but the main problem is the ongoing support and administration of the systems to keep them running and up-to-date. That’s the primary reason I switched the Windows AMD64 builds over to use containers ( https://gitlab.com/codelibre/containers?filter=libtiff ), since it’s then possible to maintain all of the build environment definitions and update them under our control, as well as having a clean and unique environment for each build. If an equivalent set of containers can be built for ARM64 then it becomes a bit more viable, but it’s still a big time commitment to set all that up. Troubleshooting and support of the old Windows build systems and the bring-up and testing and container building of the new Windows build systems has already taken several working days out of this month for me, and I don’t want to increase this further, especially when it’s not really increasing the effective test coverage that much. I’d like to see how the existing setup copes for a few months before adding more systems. It may be viable later on, but for now the existing ones are more than enough of a task to manage. Kind regards, Roger _______________________________________________ Tiff mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/tiff
