arm64 and armv7 support

[LoganJFisher]

Please consider adding support for arm64 and armv7. I would like to use a Home Assistant add-on built off of this repository, but being limited to amd64 is inconvenient for Home Assistant as many users are on arm-based systems.

This change would allow for the creation of a broadly usable Home Assistant add-on, which would in turn make running zotprime significantly more accessible.

Please see this discussion for further details: alexbelgium/hassio-addons#1227

[uniuuu]

Hi @LoganJFisher

Thank you.
I'll have some free time on weekend and review it.

[uniuuu]

Hi @LoganJFisher
There is a chance that it will run on ARM. However might be that not all components will run without issues.
Would you be able to provide a tested/verified on ARM emulator i.e. qemu-system-arm virtual machine image with Debian/Ubuntu?

[LoganJFisher]

Sorry, but that is FAR beyond my skillset.

[uniuuu]

Currently it's in progress to test all Zotero Server components in ARM emulation. Cannot tell ETA for it, probably next weekend.
For Zotero Client there is no yet ARM available from official page. But there is Arch Linux package that can be converted to DEB package as per https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/95586/zotero-on-arm64-linux-or-chromeos-arm

[uniuuu]

The latest Zotero Client v 7 added ARM64 support #30

[uniuuu]

@LoganJFisher I do not have Windows with ARM around.
If you have one could you try to build a new v 7 client there ?

[uniuuu]

Moving this topic to discussions

[LoganJFisher]

I don't have Windows with ARM either, and building a client is beyond my skillset anyway.

My ARM devices are a Raspberry Pi which I use to run Home Assistant (and the hope for alexbelgium to develop a Zotero addon was the initial goal of this chain of inquires), and a Synology NAS.

[uniuuu]

@LoganJFisher We'll get it work. I will make emulation of ARM64 and once we have all containers running then you can push it further to test on a real hardware for hass.
I understood you're not looking into Zotero client running on ARM architecture but Zotero data server only.

[uniuuu]

Hi @LoganJFisher
I have progress here however one of components is failing to build for ARM64 due to old dependencies when run newer node alpine image and old working image is not available for ARM64. I plan to move it from node alpine image to debian image to test if we can get all these issues settled.