Signal on ARM64

[prestige787]

I would like to install signal-desktop, I'm running Gentoo on an M2 mac with the asahi project. Unfortunately there is no official support for signal for arm Linux at the moment, but I know people have successfully run it on other distros like Fedora. Normally I would compile manually, but I would like to avoid compiling electron. Any suggestions?

[Banana]

Untill there is no official build (but could not be far of since it has windows ARM support now: https://community.signalusers.org/t/sig ... 64/9001/66) you could use the browser, an unoffical PI build https://github.com/dennisameling/Signal-Desktop or as a flatpack https://flathub.org/apps/org.signal.Signal

[paluszak]

I would like to install signal-desktop, I'm running Gentoo on an M2 mac with the asahi project. Unfortunately there is no official support for signal for arm Linux at the moment, but I know people have successfully run it on other distros like Fedora. Normally I would compile manually, but I would like to avoid compiling electron. Any suggestions?

I had the same problem on Raspberry Pi 5 and I ended up compiling it by hand.

[Zucca]

I would like to install signal-desktop, I'm running Gentoo on an M2 mac with the asahi project

I have the exact same situation.
I wonder if someone has now made any progress with this?

Compiling the whole chromium stack every time signal gets an update is... uncompelling, but I'd do it.
(Why can't electron be a library, with some chroot magic... *sigh*)

[Kangie]

I'm most of the way through an electron eclass and signal desktop package. No promises on when it will be available, there's a bunch of native modules that I need to package as dependencies.

If you have experience with packaging software and are interested I'd welcome the help, mostly the hard eclass work is done and there's prior art (suse packages, for example) than we can adapt.

I would also like signal on my M2...

[Zucca]

If you have experience with packaging software and are interested I'd welcome the help

All I've done is crafting some ebuilds.

I've looked at the signal-desktop git repo few times before, and to be honest, I got confused. I didn't found any guide how to build it.
Apparently one need to match the exact electron and node.js versions to build it. (This is a little bothersome, considering this is the instant messenger which brags how secure it is.)

If you have an overlay where which I could sync... I could at least look how you've done it (even if it fails to build).