The checks appear to fail because they are running on arm. This package does not support arm. I have no idea how to proceed.

Many thanks for your help @IvarWithoutBones!

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there seem to be a lot of unneeded files in the top-level of the generated output. are they really necessary? for example: START_LINUX_X86 or boot.pixicode

boot.pixicode is definitely needed: it's the code that gets executed on the virtual machine on which the whole thing is built.

I've hacked together a scheme for removing all START_* scripts which don't correspond to the current architecture. There's probably a better way to do it, but it seems to work.

ah, ic, I thought it was just left over files. You don't need to remove the unneeded files then, since the code seems more complex than having the few files lying around.

I've shortened and improved the removal logic, so that it should automatically work if darwin is ever enabled.

As it stands it will needlessly keep START_LINUX_X86 if the architecture is 86_64, but at 440 bytes, I'm not too bothered, compared to START_WINDOWS/MACOS.app which weigh around 2M each.

It would be more important to get rid of bin/pixilang_linux_x86{,_64} when unused, as these also occupy around 2M each. (It looks like the useful total for any single architecture is about 12M, so they increase the size of the package by a useless 17% on Linux and 33% on Darwin.)

With the last change, I think we're now keeping close to the minimum required for any single architecture.

cool, can you squash the changes into one single commit? no need to keep the history I guess

can you squash the changes into one single commit?

Done.

Thanks @Lassulus for your herculean effort on merging the PR backlog!

Thanks @Lassulus for your herculean effort on merging the PR backlog!

its more of an sisyphean effort :P