Official RISC-V 64-bit release assets

[benz0li]

What is your suggestion?

Build releases for Linux/RISC-V (64-bit).

Why do you want this feature?

The next stable version of Debian (13, aka trixie) is expected to ship with RISC-V 64-bit support.

Are there any workarounds to get this functionality today?

Yes. Unofficial and untested builds are published at https://gitlab.b-data.ch/coder/code-server/-/releases.

Cross reference:

• Add RISC-V (64-bit) support #6951

Are you interested in submitting a PR for this?

No.

[benz0li]

@code-asher The unofficial and untested builds are created using the multi-arch docker image glcr.b-data.ch/coder/code-server-builder.

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E.g. to build code-server v4.92.2 for Linux/RISC-V on your own Linux/x86_64 machine:

# Install emulator (Docker CE)
docker run --privileged --rm tonistiigi/binfmt:master --install riscv64

# Install emulator (Docker Desktop)
#docker run --privileged --rm tonistiigi/binfmt:desktop-master --install riscv64

CODE_SERVER_VERSION="4.92.2"
docker run --rm \
  --platform linux/riscv64 \
  -v "${PWD}/coder":/tmp/builds \
  -e VERSION="${CODE_SERVER_VERSION}" \
  -ti "glcr.b-data.ch/coder/code-server-builder:${CODE_SERVER_VERSION}"

Path to release packages¹: ${PWD}/coder/code-server/release-packages

Footnotes

1. on the docker host; if the build is successful ↩

[benz0li]

Unofficial and untested RISC-V release assets are now available at https://gitlab.b-data.ch/coder/code-server/-/releases.
ℹ️ These are created automatically as soon as a new version is tagged.

Closing for now – until there is a real demand for official RISC-V release assets.

[benz0li]

Due to nodejs/node#52888, the unofficial Linux/RISC-V Node.js binaries are stuck at v20.16.0.

To build code-server v4.95.1¹ for Linux/RISC-V on your own Linux/x86_64 machine, it is required to skip the Node.js version check:

# Install emulator (Docker CE)
docker run --privileged --rm tonistiigi/binfmt:master --install riscv64

# Install emulator (Docker Desktop)
#docker run --privileged --rm tonistiigi/binfmt:desktop-master --install riscv64

CODE_SERVER_VERSION="4.95.1"
docker run --rm \
  --platform linux/riscv64 \
  -v "${PWD}/coder":/tmp/builds \
  -e VERSION="${CODE_SERVER_VERSION}" \
  -e VSCODE_SKIP_NODE_VERSION_CHECK=1 \
  -ti "glcr.b-data.ch/coder/code-server-builder:${CODE_SERVER_VERSION}"

Path to release packages²: ${PWD}/coder/code-server/release-packages

Footnotes

1. which officially requires Node.js v20.18.0 ↩

2. on the docker host; if the build is successful ↩