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0 pointsDylan1680710y ago0 comments

Port?

Android, ChromeOS... Arm is a first-class compile target.

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Yes, in theory. What a blessing it would be if cross-compatibility was always as simple as "recompile with this as the target."

That doesn't mean you can take Chromium for Windows and recompile targeting ARM and get something that works on jailbroken WinRT. As best as I can tell nobody has gotten Chromium running, but they have gotten many other x86 applications running.

People have already tried. There's more work than that involved.

Dylan16807OP10y ago

Right, there's work involved, but it's taking code that already works on ARM, and already works on Win32, and making it work with the ARM version of Win32.

Since microsoft disallows that, there's much less incentive to do that work. But it's not an enormous barrier.

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