Build aarch64 wheels
lpsinger opened this issue · 3 comments
lpsinger commented
Wheels for aarch64 are very desirable because ARM can be more cost-effective for cloud computing (e.g. AWS Graviton EC2 instance types). PyPI, pip, manylinux, and cibuildwheel have all supported aarch64 for some time now.
By and large, free CI services are not yet providing aarch64 runners. However, cibuildwheel can automatically build wheels for non-native archs using qemu:
--archs ARCHS Comma-separated list of CPU architectures to build for. When set to 'auto', builds the architectures natively supported on this machine. Set this option to build an architecture via emulation, for example, using binfmt_misc and QEMU. Default: auto. Choices: auto, native, all, x86_64, i686, aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86, AMD64
It should be as simple as setting CIBW_ARCHS="x86_64 aarch64"
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Cadair commented
This would be a nice addition. We would need to test it in our CI as apparently cibuildwheel doesn't test it on Azure in theirs.
astrofrog commented
Agree this would be great!