Running on a Rapberry PI 4 [solved]

Using Cinder
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Hello,

Was looking into to possibility of setting up a new project on the raspberry pi4.
But I wasn’t aware that with new PI came with a new gpu and drivers.

I can build cinder and the examples but when I run it I get a.

* failed to add service - already in use?

From what I could understand by reading the internet is that the PI4 works more like regular linux setup and apps should run on X?
So I also tried to build it as regular Linux but than run in some compile errors.

Anyone has successfully run Cinder on a PI4?

Thx
Kris

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Hi Kris,

A couple of months ago I got my hands very briefly on an RPi4 and tried out building Cinder with success. Here is a screenshot that I took back then of the Deferred sample running on device.

rpi4_deferred
rpi4_deferred2448×3264 1.82 MB

You basically need to 2 things as far as I remember for this to work. First would be to install the X dependencies ( along with the standard RPi3 dependencies ) which are not part of Cinder’s RPi guide currently:

sudo apt install libxrandr-dev \
libxinerama-dev \
libxi-dev

Second would be to use Cinder’s es3 GL target when building the library and/or samples:

cmake .. -DCINDER_TARGET_GL=es3

I believe these should be the only two things needed in order to get up and running on the default RPi4 setup.

Hope this helps,
Petros

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Wauw Petros, this works!

Thank you very much and also all the other people who contributed to this linux port.
I feel the pi 4 is really a gamechanger for cinder projects. It’s really fast compared to the old models.