[Bug Report] ARM64 Snapdragon X: Faliled to register DLLs

[martinot]

Trying to install on an ARM64 machine (HP Omnibook X with Snapdragon X) with Windows 11 on ARM.

Device name HP-OmniBook-X
Processor Snapdragon(TM) X Elite - X1E78100 - Qualcomm(TM) Oryon(TM) CPU 3.42 GHz
Installed RAM 16.0 GB (15.4 GB usable)
Device ID AA3E2BC3-5218-4A51-A94F-6B684287D16C
Product ID 00342-21243-04904-AAOEM
System type 64-bit operating system, ARM-based processor
Pen and touch Touch support with 10 touch points

Edition Windows 11 Home
Version 24H2
Installed on ‎09/‎08/‎2024
OS build 26100.1301
Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.11.0

[GerbilSoft]

Likely related to #398. v2.3 should be better at handling the various ARM on Windows scenarios, but I guess not?

I don't have a Windows on ARM machine to test this myself, but it's apparently possible to run Windows on ARM on QEMU:

• Windows 10: https://github.com/raspiduino/waq
• Windows 11: https://linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/WOAR/pages/28914909194/windows-arm64+VM+using+qemu-system?focusedCommentId=28986310682

Will look into testing this over the weekend.

For now, you can manually open a command prompt and run regsvr32 on 'rom-properties.dll' in the arm64 and arm64ec directories.

[GerbilSoft]

I'm attempting to reproduce this in a Windows 11 on ARM VM using qemu, but it's unbearably slow and it silently fails to run almost any executable I try to run, including the MSVC redists. (Either that or it's just taking forever to load in the background...)

Not sure if I can really diagnose this without physical access to a Win11 ARM system, unfortunately.