Livecode script on Raspberry pi

[Heriberto Torrado]

Thank you very much Richard! I will check if what you say works well and 
I will let you know.

Best,
Hery

On 4/14/23 15:13, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
> 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.
>