Windows ARM / Aarch64 support

[Seldaek]

This was requested a few years back (viewtopic.php?p=159973#p159973) and back then it made complete sense to ignore it IMO, but with Microsoft having stepped up their game in terms of emulation lately, and the new Surface Pro 11 / Surface Laptop shipping with high end Snapdragon CPUs, the landscape is likely to change.

I just set up my new Surface Pro and I have found pretty much every software I use in ARM versions, which is great. XnView MP however is not installable because the installer refuses to start on ARM CPUs, but this could be changed I think as the software works just fine as is with the emulation. I used the portable install and that works fine.

If you can compile for ARM that'd be even better of course, but at least making the installer not complain would be a small step which already helps users keep moving forward.

Thanks!

[xnview]

as soon as i get a Surface Pro 11, i'll try to port on Windows ARM

[Seldaek]

This here has infos on building from intel CPUs too, and for testing either you could ask users (I'd be happy to try a build) or there are VMs on Azure too.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windo ... ve-support

> as soon as i get a Surface Pro 11, i'll try to port on Windows ARM

Not sure if this is a request for someone to send you one But anyway totally fair if you don't want to work on this. I just think removing the architecture check in the installer would be the cheapest way to make it "compatible" right now because it does run fine in emulation mode.

[xnview]

Not sure if this is a request for someone to send you one

No

But anyway totally fair if you don't want to work on this. I just think removing the architecture check in the installer would be the cheapest way to make it "compatible" right now because it does run fine in emulation mode.

the zip version works?

[Seldaek]

Yes the portable zip version (of XnView MP) works for me.

[Martin2108]

XnSoft is praising "XnView MP - The supercharged XnView successor for all platforms"! Not really, not on my Surface 11. I've to look for alternatives. Very sad...

[xnview]

XnSoft is praising "XnView MP - The supercharged XnView successor for all platforms"! Not really, not on my Surface 11. I've to look for alternatives. Very sad...

you can use the ZIP package

[outsmart]

I can confirm that the ZIP version works on a Windows 11 Pro laptop with a Snapdragon® X 12-core X1E80100 SoC. I'm really happy about that! That said, true native ARM support would be absolutely amazing. I hope you'll consider it. Either way, a huge thanks!