Ask HN: Haskell ARM Continuous Integration Service

15 points·Immortalin··5 comments

Are there any Haskell CI services for the ARM architecture?

I'm not aware of ARM architecture CI services for any language but I've seen people run tests in QEMU on travis-ci. It's not quite the real deal, but it's a whole lot better than nothing.

I'd imagine having real ARM hardware in a CI service would be a real pain in the ass compared to just getting CPU time from any cloud provider.

And ARM hardware is really diverse. There are a lot of variants of the CPU and most of the products are some kind of system-on-chips with a lot of device-specific software.

If you don't mind the manual maintenance, you can just get a Raspberry Pi or another ARM machine to run on. You can run a runner for a CI service on it to get the workflow automated.

Installing Haskell on a Raspberry Pi takes a while, building from source, but I agree with your answer. Are there prebuilt Haskell packages for the Pi now? When I looked I couldn't find any.

Cross compile or build dependencies once and install binary tarball for testing.

Compiling on embedded devices is horribly slow, cross compiling is a much better work flow.

The closest thing I can think you can use is Gitlab CI and use your own runner in Scaleway. But I dont know an specific service for that.

I have never heard of anything like this. Seems like using using QEMU in existing CI services would work but likely at the cost of long setup times.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM64/QEMU

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