Support for ARM64

[msegado]

Opening a parallel issue to overhangio/tutor#510. I'm currently able to build on an M1 MacBook by adding a few extra build requirements and environment variables:

diff --git a/tutormfe/templates/mfe/build/mfe/Dockerfile b/tutormfe/templates/mfe/build/mfe/Dockerfile
index 726d9ca..b996eea 100644
--- a/tutormfe/templates/mfe/build/mfe/Dockerfile
+++ b/tutormfe/templates/mfe/build/mfe/Dockerfile
@@ -3,7 +3,18 @@ FROM docker.io/node:12-bullseye-slim AS base
 RUN apt update \
   && apt install -y git \
     # required for cwebp-bin
-    gcc git libgl1 libxi6 make
+    gcc git libgl1 libxi6 make \
+    # additionally required for gifsicle, mozjpeg, and optipng
+    autoconf libtool pkg-config zlib1g-dev \
+    # additionally required for node-sass
+    python g++
+
+# Required for building optipng on M1
+ENV CPPFLAGS=-DPNG_ARM_NEON_OPT=0
+
+# Required for avoiding failed frontend-app-learning build due to missing binary on M1
+# (breaks pact tests)
+ENV PACT_SKIP_BINARY_INSTALL=true
 
 RUN mkdir -p /openedx/app /openedx/env
 WORKDIR /openedx/app

Unfortunately, using PACT_SKIP_BINARY_INSTALL is a hack that will break any Pact tests, so it's not really suitable to merge in. I don't see much alternative until there's an ARM binary for Pact though. Relevant issue: pact-foundation/pact-js-core#347

[regisb]

Can we get rid of pact upstream, in Open edX?

[msegado]

Seems unlikely... it looks like they just added it this summer: https://github.com/edx/frontend-app-learning/pull/510

[regisb]

My feeling is that it's going to be easier to make a contribution to pact than to fix the issue here.

[TimothyJones]

Pact maintainer here - pact works fine on an M1 macbook running OSX because of rosetta. It won't work if you are running a different OS on that chipset, though.

[kdmccormick]

@msegado I opened a PR against frontend-app-learning to switch pact from being a base dependency to a devDependency: openedx/frontend-app-learning#823. Do you know if that would stop Pact from breaking npm build? I would try myself but I'm on an Intel machine.

[kdmccormick]

It turns out that my PR linked above might fix the Pact issue for production image builds (assumingNODE_ENV=production when we run npm install for the production image), but we'd still be left with a broken build for the development image. I'm going to get it merged, but I think we'll still need an upstream Pact fix :/

[yarons]

@kdmccormick I know that there's an option to make some Dockerfile conditionals based on BUILDTARGET so there could be distinct pakcages for each platform (in this case an addition).

[jigsawlabs-student]

I am running into an issue with the following:

FROM docker.io/node:12-bullseye-slim AS base

RUN apt update \
  && apt install -y git \
    # required for cwebp-bin
    gcc git libgl1 libxi6 make \
    # additionally required for gifsicle, mozjpeg, and optipng
    autoconf libtool pkg-config zlib1g-dev \
    # additionally required for node-sass
    python g++
    
# Required for avoiding failed frontend-app-learning build due to missing binary on M1
# (breaks pact tests)
ENV PACT_SKIP_BINARY_INSTALL=true

RUN mkdir -p /openedx/app /openedx/env

However, when I run tutor images build mfe I get the following error:

#71 42.45 ERROR in ./src/index.scss
#71 42.45 Module build failed (from ./node_modules/mini-css-extract-plugin/dist/loader.js):
#71 42.45 ModuleBuildError: Module build failed (from ./node_modules/image-webpack-loader/index.js):
#71 42.45 Error: Cannot find module 'gifsicle'
#71 42.45 Require stack:

Per suggestions on the Internet, tried updating my Dockerfile to the following to install dh-autoreconf, but still run into the same error:

RUN apt update \
  && apt install -y git \
    # required for cwebp-bin
    gcc git libgl1 libxi6 make \
    # additionally required for gifsicle, mozjpeg, and optipng
    autoconf libtool pkg-config zlib1g-dev \
    # additionally required for node-sass
    python g++
    
RUN apt-get install dh-autoreconf

[yarons]

@jigsawlabs-student Please correct me if I'm wrong but the gifsicle Node package requires the gifsicle binary.

AFAICT gifsicle binary support aarch64 yet the Node package doesn't, did you notice the same thing?

[jigsawlabs-student]

@yarons Ok, so I was able to resolve this.

For the gifsicle, I ran:

brew install gifsicle on my mac

I then ran into an error related to pact binary install. It turned out that my mfe image didn't have the correct updates.

I went to /Library/Application Support/tutor/env/plugins/mfe/build and updated the dockerfile to have:

RUN apt update \
  && apt install -y git \
    # required for cwebp-bin
    gcc git libgl1 libxi6 make \
    # additionally required for gifsicle, mozjpeg, and optipng
    autoconf libtool pkg-config zlib1g-dev \
    # additionally required for node-sass
    python g++
    
# Required for avoiding failed frontend-app-learning build due to missing binary on M1
# (breaks pact tests)
ENV PACT_SKIP_BINARY_INSTALL=true

as described above.

Then, referencing this comment, I ran tutor images build mfe, and then tutor local init.

Then from there, ran tutor dev runserver lms, and was able to access my site at http://local.overhang.io:8000/

[yarons]

@jigsawlabs-student I just want to mention you're awesome!

Yet, I have to ask, installing some extras locally is the only solution?
(I'm asking this because of K8s mainly).