This time around, instead of the very ad hoc approach I have historically taken, this time we actually have a convenient script that takes care of basically all the hard work necessary, including cross-compilation.
We compile natives for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (OpenSSL 1.1.x native and libdeflate) and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (OpenSSL 3.x.x native), for both x86_64 and aarch64.
The macOS natives have also been recompiled on macOS Sonoma.
OpenSSL is much more portable and optimized (important for aarch64) and most systems already have a version.
Unfortunately, OpenSSL likes to break their ABI. Thankfully, Velocity's natives system is very flexible largely, so we can provide multiple versions of this crypto.
Versions of the dynamically-linked crypto were compiled on CentOS 7 (still supported until 2024, uses OpenSSL 1.0.x) and Debian 9 (the oldest distro including OpenSSL 1.1.0, whose LTS supports ends in 2022). The choice of distros was intended to cover most modern distributions (2014 and afterwards).
An ARM compilation (using Debian 9) will be published soon.
We have dropped the rarely used kqueue and replaced it with the new Netty aarch64
native. In addition, lay down the foundation for other aarch64 natives.
