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I'm making a VSCode extension that requires a compiled program (let's call it program A) to be shipped with the extension, but the build file is getting too large.
That is: on each OS platform, I have to include an x64 and an arm64 version to allow the extension to run on those machines.

The extension logic itself is not heavy, but the program A is much heavier. I don't think shipping the extension with the 6 compiled versions of program A is a good choice.

So I'm thinking of a way to make 3 platform-specific versions of the extension, each with 2 compiled versions of program A (x64 and arm64). Each version will only show on the correct platform.

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Have you seen https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-platform-specific-sample/tree/main and https://code.visualstudio.com/api/working-with-extensions/publishing-extension#platformspecific-extensions for platform-specific extensions?

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