Provide pre-compiled arm64 binaries

[pyromaniac3010]

Describe your idea, in simple words.

It would be great to have a pre-compiled arm64 binary on the release page available.

Why is it a good idea?

Cloud providers offer cheaper priced instances with arm64 processors.

Are you willing to work on it yourself?

I could test the arm64 binaries on my infrastructure

[KtorZ]

This is indeed in the making. We are looking into adding ARM support for the docker image, which will probably demand that we get static arm64 binary first.

[theshashankpal]

Hi @pyromaniac3010 ,
This issue seems to be a good initiation of my journey towards contribution to FOSS projects.
Can you please assign this to me?

[KtorZ]

@theshashankpal I am currently experimenting with cross compiling using Haskell.nix; so far, it's building 🤞, I'll let you know how it goes and if it doesn't work, I am more than happy to get some assistance :)

[KtorZ]

It didn't work as planned in the end: input-output-hk/haskell.nix#1652

[pyromaniac3010]

The arm64 binaries (non docker) could be used to improve the easy installation with https://github.com/cardano-community/guild-operators. I'm currently working on some patches there to make koios work on arm64 instances.