How to building native image for ARM

I would like to build GraalVM native image for ARM architecture from my AMD machine.
It such feature currently supported by native-packager ?

As for now I have tried to use docker image with hash in GraalVMNativeImagePlugin.generateContainerBuildImage() what should allow me to pull ARM based docker image.

Ex:
GraalVMNativeImagePlugin.generateContainerBuildImage("ghcr.io/graalvm/graalvm-ce:latest@sha256:94a029ea80df5d66e5f49d30a1a4348b654e2cb8ccc7a26ec209691943a2ee8e")

Unfortunately it results in error Error response from daemon: build tag cannot contain a digest

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What sbt-native-packager are you using -> 1.8.1
What sbt version -> 1.5.2
What is your build system -> MacOs AMD64
What package are you building -> docker
What version has your build tool -> set
What is your target system -> any with ARM base CPU

@muuki88

@muuki88
Is there any news regarding this? We might be facing a similar issue where we want to provide multi-arch Docker Images

I'm happy to help you with implementing this feature😊, but I don't have the time nor the experience or setup to build this 😃

@muuki88

@muuki88 Can you describe the steps needed to implement this feature here ? It looks as if there need to extend FROM directive with platform parameter but you are probably aware of other places that should be changed ;)

I have no real experience with graal + docker and especially not ARM 😅

However the concept for all formats in native packager is always the same

Layout the files on disc as required for the packaging tool ( e.g. Docker / stage puts all files along with a Dockerfile in the target/docker folder
Execute the packaging command with the desired parameters

Step 1 should already be available, so it's only part 2. I'll check later what SBT tasks and settings are available.

What would the packaging command look like?

I'm not an expert on GraalVM's native-image, but from what I understand is that the resulting executable is both OS and CPU architecture specific. I've been able to build linux/arm64 binaries successfully using this setting on my ARM64 Macbook: graalVMNativeImageGraalVersion := Some("22.0.0.2"). I can then containerise the native-image using a Dockerfile such as:

FROM oraclelinux:8-slim
COPY ./target/graal-native-image/my-application ./app/

CMD ./app/my-application

Assuming my understanding is correct of how native-image builds work, if you want to build a macos/arm64 binary instead that you can run locally and not in a container, you're out of luck until there is a macos/arm64 version of GraalVM/native-image. You can keep an eye out for new GraalVM releases here, and look out for something tagged darwin-aarch64-XXXX.tar.gz

I hope that helps!

For the record:

for MacOS on MX CPU (ARM64) simply use macos-latest and for MacOS on X64 use macos-13
For Windows and Linux there are no ARM64 runners/images/vms available yet. This is likely to change soon. Otherwise you need to setup your own runner. For Linux you could even use ubuntu aem64 image via docker inside of MacOS ARM64.

https://github.com/actions/runner-images?tab=readme-ov-file#available-images

https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-github-hosted-runners/using-github-hosted-runners/about-github-hosted-runners#standard-github-hosted-runners-for-public-repositories

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