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Installation errors on linux aarch64

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Hi there, when trying to install textworld on linux aarch64 with pip install textworld, I get this error during the installation of inform7.

[...]
Running setup.sh...
      ++ uname -s
      + unameOut=Linux
      + case "${unameOut}" in
      + machine=Linux
      + cd textworld/thirdparty/
      + '[' '!' -e I7_6M62_Linux_all.tar.gz ']'
      + echo 'Downloading Inform7 CLI'
      Downloading Inform7 CLI
      + curl -LO http://emshort.com/inform-app-archive/6M62/I7_6M62_Linux_all.tar.gz
        % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                       Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
      
        0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
       13 22.1M   13 2991k    0     0  3222k      0  0:00:07 --:--:--  0:00:07 3220k
      100 22.1M  100 22.1M    0     0  15.6M      0  0:00:01  0:00:01 --:--:-- 15.6M
      + '[' Linux == Mac ']'
      + '[' '!' -d inform7-6M62 ']'
      + tar xf I7_6M62_Linux_all.tar.gz
      + echo 'Installing Inform7 CLI'
      Installing Inform7 CLI
      + cd inform7-6M62/
      + tar xzf inform7-common_6M62_all.tar.gz
      + '[' Linux '!=' Mac ']'
      ++ uname -m
      + ARCH=aarch64
      + tar xzf inform7-compilers_6M62_aarch64.tar.gz
      tar (child): inform7-compilers_6M62_aarch64.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
      tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
      tar: Child returned status 2
      tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
[...]
note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for textworld
  Building wheel for jericho (setup.py) ... done
  Created wheel for jericho: filename=jericho-3.3.0-py3-none-any.whl size=323988 sha256=67b0f001e48aeaa6dc299b4265d62d9e74f2a14447a678d70427203cd4b7bc33
  Stored in directory: /tmp/pip-ephem-wheel-cache-miw_a459/wheels/be/45/8b/50c2d9429695074a38f4170d11793578a11a5e12417534933d
Failed to build textworld
ERROR: Could not build wheels for textworld, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects

This is because there are no inform7 wheels for aarch64 on the link provided. Looking around, I could not yet find a version of inform7 for aarch64. This might be because inform7 is extremely outdated.

Given that linux machines with ARM64 processors are becoming more and more popular, is there any plan to support it, or is there any known workaround?

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Research direction

The failure is in the Inform7 installation invoked by setup.sh under textworld/thirdparty; begin by reproducing pip install textworld on Linux aarch64 and inspect which compiler archive setup.sh expects. Done means installation completes on that architecture, or the issue records a verified workaround if Inform7 cannot provide an aarch64 package.

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Assessment

Tech stack
linux, python
Domain
build-system, operating-systems
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
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Activity status
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