title: Compiling ARM version of Theia-IDE using GitHub Actions
categories: Script
date: 2025-06-16 23:20:58
tags: [‘github’, ‘theia’]

Since my first encounter with ChromeOS/FydeOS, I’ve been trying various VSCode-like editors. Recently, after learning about Huawei’s CodeArt and its upstream project Theia, I started tinkering again.
Unfortunately, my current device is an 8GB FydeOS, not the 16GB Manjaro or PixelBook 2017 I used before. The available memory in the Linux container is very limited - I can’t even compile an ARM version of Theia-IDE browser edition… So… I had to “borrow” GitHub’s resources again.

This combines what I mentioned before about [Using Codespace to write blogs] and [Using GitHub Actions].

First, create a new project on GitHub, then click Code in the upper right corner to create a Codespace for this project, which allows you to use VSCode directly in the browser for coding and saving.
I directly referenced my previous certimate_win7 project to create a GitHub workflow, making sure to use GitHub’s Arm Runner.

The original Theia-IDE project doesn’t have official releases yet, so we can’t download pre-built releases by tags. Instead, we need to use checkout to get specific code versions.

Then follow the instructions in the project’s browser.Dockerfile to set up the compilation steps. After that, package the entire code directory and upload it to my project’s Releases.

After downloading the compiled files, install system-level dependencies as per the official instructions, then run yarn browser start to launch it.

Since I’m using FydeOS, I compiled the browser version directly. If you need the desktop version, just follow the official instructions to generate the ARM version.