Is it expected that cli can be built on ARM?

I was under the impression that I could build this on ARM (as is @shanselman), however I’ve been unable to make it work. The first step of build.sh seems to be to download a binary rather than build and that seems to be an x86 binary.

I found dotnet/sdk#5310 but it’s not clear it that was about binaries or building from source (it sounds like the poster was trying to build, but the subject suggests he wanted binaries).

Is it supposed to be possible to build on ARM, or is this also unsupported?

Steps to reproduce

1. Clone repo on Arm machine (eg. Raspberry Pi)
2. Execute build.sh

Expected behavior

Build with no errors.

Actual behavior

Error when executing dotnet restore

Environment data

dotnet --info output: dotnet does not run

[moozzyk]

I was actually thinking about trying to enable dotnet on ARM… CoreClr on ARM works and the cli itself does not have a lot awful of native code.

[shahid-pk]

coreclr has made very good progress on linux arm , thanks to contributions from the community. People from the community are tracking the progress here. https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/issues/3977

I think manually building coreclr on arm and using that build to built this repo can be made possible. But i think to make cli functional on linux will also need some changes to corefx, mainly publishing linux arm version of native bits published to the nuget feeds.

The actual native code work required was in coreclr which is very near to complete as can be seen from the arm progress issue i linked.