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by goombacloud 1286 days ago
It's sad to see that Apple Silicon gets extra treatment and arm64 work suddenly gets done while for Linux it's still amd64-only. With Signal it's the same and they also don't offer arm64 builds.

Nowadays it's very easy to build for arm64 - you either go the way with cross compilation or you go the way with full qemu binary emulation which is as simple as it gets because you would build within an arm64 docker image, e.g., docker.io/arm64v8/alpine or docker.io/arm64v8/ubuntu and qemu-static handles the emulation (it will be slower than cross compilation but as long as speed is acceptable you can go this easy way).