Livecode script on Raspberry pi

[Richard Gaskin]

Hello Heriberto -

I haven't run the old LC/ARM-Linux build in so long I have no idea how 
well it works anymore. It was created as a weekend side project of an LC 
staff member who's long since moved on. Back in the open source days I 
tried to find someone to maintain it, but I was unable to locate anyone 
who'd made a successful compile, let alone be able to maintain it with 
future OS changes.

But if your current LC/ARM build runs on whatever RPi you're using, 
there was never a Server build but LC has always had the ability to use 
standalones as command-line apps, going al the way back to beginning in 
1992. This is how we were using MetaCard/LC as our server CGI engine for 
all the years before the team made the PHP-style LC Server edition.

To run an LC standalone from the command line, add a "-ui" flag, e.g.:

   /home/UserName/AppName -ui

The -ui flag prompts the engine to launch in a way that bypasses GUI 
initialization.  This may be essential on many RPi units, since LC's GUI 
implementation there is old and no longer in sync with the OS, so 
crashes are increasingly common when attempting to run with a UI.

But since command-line is all you need you should (hopefully) be fine, 
and you'll find the engine runs _very_ fast with no GUI.


Bonus: Back when Dr Peter Brett was with LC he made a nifty library for 
parsing command-line arguments. To learn more on that see the GetOpt 
function in the LC Dictionary.

-- 
  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems


> Dear Livecode experts,
> 
> I'm interested in running the Livecode script/server version on my 
> Raspberry Pi. While I'm not keen on creating graphical applications, I'd 
> like to switch from using Python as my scripting language and utilize 
> Livecode instead. I find Livecode to be more efficient and productive 
> for my needs. My question is: have you successfully managed to run the 
> server version of Livecode on a Raspberry Pi using an x86 emulator like 
> Box86? Any insights or advice on this matter would be greatly 
> appreciated. Thank you!
> 
> Best,
> 
> Heriberto Torrado