[ 1 Introduction ] [ 1.1 Windows on Arm upstream support ] [ 1.2 Projects ] [ 1.3 Related projects ] [ 2 Roadmap ] [ 3 Current Plan ] [ 4 Backlog ] [ 5 Accomplished ] [ 6 Active Members ]

Introduction

Establish a healthy self-sustaining Arm open source ecosystem for Windows

Windows on Arm upstream support

Adding support for Windows on Arm into open source projects requires official builds in CI, a long-term commitment to maintainership, and a solid, trusted relationship with the upstream project maintainers.

For each tool, language or framework

Determine if the package can be built for WoA - upstream fixes
Set up CI and testing in package maintainers CI system, or support upstream CI
Migrate WoA CI towards WOA servers as they become available.
Coordinate with each vendor to analyse and fix regressions (Triage)
Establish trusted relationships with each project maintainer
Help the community establish WoA as a first-class deliverable

Projects

Projects	Status	Note	Download	Project Page
LLVM	DONE	Official releases are available from LLVM 12	https://releases.llvm.org/	https://linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/LLVM
Flang (LLVM Fortran)	DONE	LLVM V18 will support Flang. Back ported to v17.4	https://releases.llvm.org/	https://linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/LLVM/pages/28687990785
GNU Toolchain	WAITING	Multiple patches have been up-streamed to binutils. MS working on adding support for GCC and remaining binutils.		https://linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/WOAR/pages/28802842658
Python	DONE	Ported top python packages but binary wheels are not yet available.	https://www.python.org/downloads/	https://linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/WOAR/pages/28598239406
Qt	DONE	Technical preview is available from Qt 6.2. 6.8 LTS release expected to make WoA officially supported architecture.	https://www.qt.io/	https://linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/WOAR/pages/28834594829
CMake	DONE	Official releases are available from CMake 3.24	https://cmake.org/download/	https://linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/WOAR/pages/28684353912
Bazel	DONE	Official releases are available from Bazel 5.1	https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/releases	https://linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/WOAR/pages/28685041907
Tcl/Tk	DONE	No prebuilt binaries available. Compile from source from v8.6		https://linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/WOAR/pages/28698017811
Node	DONE	Official releases available from v20	https://nodejs.org/en/download/current	https://linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/WOAR/pages/28696084508
Blender	DONE	Enabled for WoA. Expected to be supported from v4.2 LTS release.		https://linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/WOAR/pages/28769779775
Flutter	DONE	Dart v3.3 is expected to release WoA in stable branch. Flutter should follow soon.		https://linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/WOAR/pages/28745138193
Perl	BLOCKED	Strawberry Perl is blocked on GCC.		https://linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/WOAR/pages/28697821212
MySQL	BLOCKED	PR being reviewed by Oracle. Pending for a while.		https://linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/WOAR/pages/28708241465
QEMU	DONE	Installer available through pacman		https://linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/WOAR/pages/28862152831
Postgres	WAITING	Community working towards enabling this.		https://linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/WOAR/pages/28707291320
OpenSSL	DONE	Release v3.1 support WoA.	https://github.com/openssl/openssl/releases	https://linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/WOAR/pages/28769485022
SQLite	DONE	Enabled, but no prebuilt binaries available yet. No response on request for ARM64 binaries.		https://linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/WOAR/pages/28831612929
PyTorch	DONE	Enabled and transitioned to Microsoft.		https://linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/WOAR/pages/28749496342
WiX	DONE	Releases available from WiX v4	https://wixtoolset.org/docs/intro/	https://linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/WOAR/pages/28834725907
VLC	DONE		https://www.videolan.org/vlc/	https://linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/WOAR/pages/28834300353
GIMP	DONE	GIMP v3.0 expected to support WoA. Working with MS on getting a release through MS Store. Currently an all-in-one installer with ARM64 experimental support is available on 2.10.36.	https://www.gimp.org/downloads/	https://linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/WOAR/pages/28834725894
Android Studio	BLOCKED			https://linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/WOAR/pages/28835053579
Git for Windows	BLOCKED	Still blocked by the availability of GCC and MSYS2.		https://linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/WOAR/pages/28830990361
OpenBLAS	DONE	Available on release 0.3.21 onwards	No binaries available	https://linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/WOAR/pages/28876439568
OSquery	DONE	Available on release v5.9.0 onwards	https://github.com/osquery/osquery/releases/download/5.11.0/osquery-5.11.0.windows_arm64.zip	https://linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/WOAR/pages/28850651153
SSE2Neon	DONE	Release v1.7.0 supports WoA.	No binaries available.	https://linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/WOAR/pages/29096280130
Audacity	DONE	PR merged into Audacity. Expected to released in v3.5. Waiting on GHA for formal release.		https://linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/WOAR/pages/29063544860
Signal	DONE	Waiting on response in regard to use of WinRT	https://signal.org/download/windows/	https://linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/WOAR/pages/29102997710
Ruby	DONE	Package available in MSYS2.	https://rubyinstaller.org/2025/01/19/rubyinstaller-3.4.1-2-released.html	https://linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/WOAR/pages/29068427275
libobjc2	DONE	Release V2.2 support WoA.	No binaries available	https://linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/WOAR/pages/29084287009
nginx	DONE	Mainline support is available for NGINX. No official Windows releases.	No binaries available	https://linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/WOAR/pages/29109649529
Kotlin	BLOCKED	Gradle does not support WoA
TFLite	BlOCKED	Readying PR for submission.		https://linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/WOAR/pages/29206609925
VirtualBox	SHELVED	Shelved until architecture is figured out.
LibreOffice	DONE	Community took over the last part of enablement to fix some issues after we got them WoA machines		https://linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/WOAR/pages/29184426117
Github extensions and samples	DONE		No binaries available	https://linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/WOAR/pages/29352263686
MariaDB	BLOCKED	MariaDB is private now and have lost MS sponsorship. They are unable to support at this time.
Jenkins	BLOCKED	No positive response from the company. Very aggressive engineering response. No confidence in sustainable builds.		https://linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/WOAR/pages/28861693955
MongoDB	BLOCKED	Build system is too complex. No response from the org to help out.
OBS Studio Dependencies	DONE	Done, waiting on OBS Studio to test dependencies
GHC	BLOCKED	Haskell intrinsics and assembly requires experience and knowledge
Arudino IDE	BLOCKED	Blocked libzma-native is not available for arm64 and is not accepting patches
Conan packages	DONE	Investigated all top packages are available for WoA natively.
Telegram	DONE	Available in Microsoft Store and direct download	https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9NZTWSQNTD0S
Github samples	DONE			https://linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/WOAR/pages/29352263686
VFX Referenc ePlatform	DONE			https://linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/WOAR/pages/29693247491

Related projects

https://linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CLIENTPC

https://linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/WPERF

Roadmap

Current Plan

Backlog

Accomplished

Active Members

Project Meetings

Windows on Arm Technical
Every two weeks on Tuesday, 4:00 – 5:00pm

If you're interested in participating in the meeting, please contact windowsonarm@linaro.org

Meeting notes

Project Contacts

Project lead(s) @Lina Iyer
Project Manager @julianus.larson
Steering committee woa-sc@linaro.org
Engineering discussions woa-dev@lists.linaro.org
Support woa-support@op-lists.linaro.org

Source Code

WindowsOnArm · GitLab

Resources

Windows On Arm (WOA)

Windows on Arm (WOA)