How to Set Up ARM64 Code Server from tar.gz Release?

[Future-Outlier]

Description

I'm encountering an issue while trying to set up Code Server on an ARM64 system, following the instructions from the official documentation.
But I found that amd64 works, but arm64 doesn't.
It sounds that the binary file of node is wrong.

Setup Process

wget --no-check-certificate -O /tmp/code-server/code-server-4.19.0-linux-arm64.tar.gz https://github.com/coder/code-server/releases/download/v4.19.0/code-server-4.19.0-linux-arm64.tar.gz
tar -xzf ./code-server-4.19.0-linux-arm64.tar.gz -C ./
cd code-server-4.19.0-linux-arm64
./bin/code-server

In ARM64

In AMD64

[code-asher]

It is possible the build script has an bug. We try to download Node straight from nodejs.org for the appropriate architecture.

code-server/.github/workflows/release.yaml

Lines 174 to 179 in 0c98611

	- name: Replace node with cross-compile equivalent
	run: |
	node_version=$(node --version)
	wget https://nodejs.org/dist/${node_version}/node-${node_version}-linux-${npm_config_arch}.tar.xz
	tar -xf node-${node_version}-linux-${npm_config_arch}.tar.xz node-${node_version}-linux-${npm_config_arch}/bin/node --strip-components=2
	mv ./node ./release-standalone/lib/node

If you download and extract https://nodejs.org/dist/v18.15.0/node-v18.15.0-linux-arm64.tar.xz does the Node binary in there work?

[Future-Outlier]

No, it doesn't work

I think we need to change the script and point to the right version right?

[code-asher]

Very interesting! Thank you for confirming.

If this is an arm64 system node-v18.15.0-linux-arm64 is surely the right version. Does uname -a report the right architecture? If the amd64 binary works this is probably an amd64 system.

[Future-Outlier]

Thank you really much, let me try to build an arm64 image and tell you my result!