topic Re: Windows ARM64 support request (LinkServer/MCUXpresso) in MCX Microcontrollers

Windows ARM64 support request (LinkServer/MCUXpresso)

VersD — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:57:00 GMT

This a request to also start releasing a Windows ARM64 version of LinkServer and the MCUXpresso Installer. I lately see more students using these ARM-based windows laptops.

Re: Windows ARM64 support request (LinkServer/MCUXpresso)

luis_maravilla — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:46:03 GMT

Hello,

Thank you for your recommendation, I will comment on this to the correspondent team,

For using MCUXpresso could you help us try using the Visual Studio Code extension? And let us know your findings?

You can read more about the installation and use fort this tool in

MCUXpresso for VS Code documentation — MCUXpresso for VS Code 26.05 documentation

MCUXpresso for Visual Studio Code | NXP Semiconductors

Best Regards, Luis

Re: Windows ARM64 support request (LinkServer/MCUXpresso)

VersD — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:06:13 GMT

Thank you for the reply. The vscode extension works properly. The mcu-link driver is based on WinUSB which Microsoft ported neatly. I didn't have admin rights on the test system, but i was able to copy linkserver to the system and debug projects. I don't know about other drivers within the LinkServer installation, but they'd need a signed arm version.

Unfortunately all the tools installed by the "mcuxpresso installer" are x64, so everything runs through the Prism translation layer. git,python,ninja,cmake etc. should have arm versions released already so could be packaged. Only the arm-none-eabi toolchain doesn't have a arm64 version released yet, but could be built. Specifically for mcu-link dev boards it's mostly about performance on the ARM64 windows version.