Install Xojo on Raspberry

Targets Raspberry Pi
1

Is it possible to install Xojo 2015 3 on Raspberry?
RPM, DEB OR TGZ?

I tried RPM:

[code]sudo rpm -i xojo2015r3.rpm
sudo: rpm command not found

sudo apt-get install rpm
sudo rpm -i xojo2015r3.rpm
rpm: RPM should not be used directly install RPM packages,use Alien instead

sudo apt-get install Alien
sudo alien -i xojo2015r3.rpm
xojo2015r3.rpm is for architecture i386 ; the package cannot be built on this system[/code]

I tried also DEB:

sudo bpkg -i xojo2015r3.deb dpkg: error processing the archive xojo2015r3lfcl.deb (--install): the package architecture (i386) does not match that of the system (armhf) There were errors in processing xojo2015r3lfcl.deb

I tried also TGZ extracted folders with double click on Xojo but nothing.

Could somebody help me?

Thank you Roberto

2

No.

The Xojo IDE is compiled for the i386 architecture. Raspberry Pi uses armhf.

3

Thank you Frederick.
Does anyone know if there is a draft version of armhf XOJO planned in the future?

4

I’d think the Pi is too weak to run Xojo on :wink:
Especially in the RAM area.

5

Perhaps with a Raspberry Pi Cluster (Multi-PI boards) I don’t think that making it should be very difficult.
see for example build a compact 4 node Raspberry-pi-cluster

6

Like @Greg O’Lone said on this forum a while ago: " It’s Xojo FOR your PI, not Xojo ON your PI."

7

… let’s hope that the debug will come soon

8

I’ve been using:

http://eltechs.com/product/exagear-desktop/

to run x86 linux xojo under raspbian :wink:

9

Do I even want to know how slow it is ?

10

You CAN run Xojo up to version 2017r2.1 (32-bit) on the Raspberry Pi 3B+ using Exagear. It’s a little sluggish, but usable. I think the Raspi hardware of the 3B+ has finally grown up enough to warrant looking at native installation. Without the Exagear emulation layer, an ARM-compiled Xojo should run at speed. Then, of course, there’s the question of supporting a 32-bit program in a 64-bit world. Oddly enough, the Raspberry Pi since the 2B v1.2 has been a 64-bit machine, but the Raspberry Pi folks want to ensure compatibility across all models and are sticking with a 32-bit kernel. SUSE does have an officially supported 64-bit OS image for the Raspi 3 (not the 3B+ yet). There are also a couple of open source attempts; Bamarni/Pi64 for the Raspi 3 (again, not the 3B+) and a really nice Gentoo image from Sakaki that can be easily installed by image with Etcher or using PINN (the NOOBS fork).

As for the memory issue, perhaps a ramdisk? I boot directly from a USB m.2 2242 128 Gig SSD which speeds things up a bit.