Enabling native launchers for the release

[JaroslavTulach]

Pull Request Description

Let's finish #10121 by enabling native Enso launcher during the release builds.

• thanks to Enable NI with IDE #12287 everyone needs to opt-in to use the native mode.
• the release bits are ready for the native mode
• turn the native mode on by specifying ENSO_LAUCHER=native environment variable.
• during the development we continue to use shell launchers by default
• follow instructions in ENSO_LAUNCHER can be native,test,debug,fast,-ls #12117 to develop within native mode

Nightly release bits are built. Thanks for testing them.

Checklist

Please ensure that the following checklist has been satisfied before submitting the PR:

• All code follows the
  Scala,
  Rust
  style guides.
• Release bits are tested manually
  • Check is OK on Linux
  • Check on Windows
  • no check on Mac - IDE isn't built right now
• Nightly extra tests running

[Akirathan]

Before integrating, please remember to:

• Manually schedule Nightly Release and download and test both Linux and Windows. I believe that Mac nightly release is still not working because of the signatures.
• Probably also worth manually running Extra Nightly Tests

TL;DR; Make sure everything works before integration, as it might be too painful to fix it afterwards.

[JaroslavTulach]

Nightly release bits are built:

Linux

ide-linux-amd64 - good I can execute ./enso-linux-x86_64-2025.1.1-nightly.2025.2.17.AppImage --no-sandbox and create and use new project. I can also:

$ ./enso-linux-x86_64-2025.1.1-nightly.2025.2.17.AppImage  --appimage-extract
$ ls -l ./squashfs-root/resources/enso/dist/2025.1.1-nightly.2025.2.17/bin/enso
495332456 ./squashfs-root/resources/enso/dist/2025.1.1-nightly.2025.2.17/bin/enso
$ ./squashfs-root/resources/enso/dist/2025.1.1-nightly.2025.2.17/bin/enso --run ~/fac.enso 30
265252859812191058636308480000000

e.g. the native image launcher is part of the AppImage and it works.

Windows

ide-windows-amd64 - good as well. Can create new project. Executing ~/AppData/Local/Programs/Enso/resources/enso/dist/2025.1.1-nightly.2025.2.17/bin/enso.exe works as well.

Thanks for testing them.

[JaroslavTulach]

Nightly release with this PR in succeeded "as usual" these days: https://github.com/enso-org/enso/actions/runs/13381982489 - e.g. everything is OK except Mac build.

Set ENSO_LAUNCHER=native environment variable before launching Enso application to opt-in.

Download Page

There is a download page and it offers enso-bundle - which seems to work on my Ubuntu:

$ tar fxvz enso-bundle-2025.1.1-nightly.2025.2.18-linux-amd64.tar.gz
$ ./enso/dist/2025.1.1-nightly.2025.2.18/bin/enso --run /enso/test/Table_Tests
5254 tests succeeded.
0 tests failed.
124 tests skipped.
36 groups skipped.

e.g. table tests can be executed in native mode.

[JaroslavTulach]

• now we can fix the CWD problem Fix CWD before executing libraries code #12301

[JaroslavTulach]

• we need to fix --jvm option handling: Native enso bundle contains GraalVM, but --jvm cannot find it #12302