[PD] Pd on ARM devices

[Pierre Massat]

2012/2/29 Charles Henry <czhenry at gmail.com>

> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Pierre Massat <pimassat at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Dear List,
> >
> > I'm planning to buy a Raspberry Pi sometime soon, and I'd like to know
> the
> > implications of the ARM11 chip on the use of Pd.
> > I know nothing about the differences in architectures, so i'd like to
> know :
> > - why an ARM chip would be a problem for compiling, installing and
> running
> > Pd,
>
> It's not a problem--Pd compiles and runs on the arm architecture.
> Android devices for example have arm processors.  Debian pure data
> packages are available for arm.
>

That's good news! I suppose Debian packages can't be installed in Fedora,
can they?


> compilation-wise... there's some gcc options that you use to specify
> arm architectures.  I'd say "nothing to it", but you'll most likely
> have to play a bit to find the differences.
>
> > - if there exists another option that's up to date (Pda seems a bit old),
> > - if Libpd could be used instead (given that i only want to run Pd
> patches
> > on the Raspberry Pi, I don't need to edit anything on it).
>
> Don't you want to try the graphics processor on the R. Pi?  At the
> very least, it should be good enough for tcl/tk.
>

If Pd can be installed then I'll definitely stick to it.


>
> >
> > Thank you in advance!
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > Pierre.
> >
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