[FEATURE REQUEST] Provide Windows arm64 binary

[MarkCallow]

Description

Please provide a compiled emulator library for Windows arm64. I am running Windows 11 on Apple Silicon.

You have arm64 versions for many other platforms.

Additional Info

[AlejandroCosin]

Hi Mark,

Thanks for your question.

Our GLES emulator PVRVFrame supports Windows x86 32-bit ad 64-bit architectures. Unfortunately it does not support arm64 and currently there are no plans to support it.

Best regards,
Alejandro

[MarkCallow]

It is a feature request not a question.

Sorry to hear you have no plans to support it. I'm sure it will be more useful than the x86 32-bit version you continue to support. I doubt there are many people left who can run that. Most likely Windows arm64 support just requires setting up a VC++ build to target arm64.

[AlejandroCosin]

Hi Mark,

Your request is being discussed internally. One possible disadvantage is related with the GLES version PVRVFrame would be able to emulate. Since PVRVFrame uses OpenGL for emulation, it could be heavily limited unfortunately, most likely to GLES v2.0. Would you still be interested?

Best regards,
Alejandro

[MarkCallow]

Hi @AlejandroCosin, Parallels provides OpenGL 3.3 to Windows running on their VM on Apple Silicon. That should be good enough for OpenGL ES 3.0 which would meet my needs.

Real Windows arm64 hardware may well have more up to date versions of OpenGL. I think Qualcomm was the only hardware officially supported by Microsoft until their recent announcement of support for Windows 11 on Parallels.