Linux Arm64 testing

einhugur

Starting this thread to test on various of things.

First test was on Radxa Dragon Q6A 12 GB Ram using NVMe disk, running brand new install of Armbian.

I could not get the install here to work, and even after I installed few of the things it says is missing like libc6 and the zlib1g then it still gives same.

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
objo-studio: Depends: libc6 but it is not installable
Depends: libicu72 but it is not installable or
libicu74 but it is not installable or
libicu76 but it is not installable
Depends: libssl3 but it is not installable or
libssl3t64 but it is not installable
Depends: zlib1g but it is not installable

Did not know how to proceed further there for now. (I will post results on more machines soon, guess will try to do next on Official Rasberry to see how that goes)

So.....I think the deb installer is maybe just crazy somehow ? since most of those are installed. And I proceeded to just use the tar.gz file.

The Studio runs, and it runs fast.....and hello world builds and runs fast. (I expected it fast on this board, I will then go downwards on smaller boards where maybe fast will not be expected)

einhugur

Raspberry Pi 5 8 GB Ram, using NVMe disk.

IDE runs and is fast, slightly slower than on previous board but still fast enough.

Simple hello world project runs.

(Only tested the tar.gz download, given the deb installer seemed strange somehow)

einhugur

Radxa 5T 12 GB Ram, using NVMe disk.

IDE runs and is very fast.

Simple hello world project runs.

(Only tested the tar.gz download, given the deb installer seemed strange somehow)

jalih

Does it work without X11 or Wayland using KMSDRM?

Garry

Thanks for testing these! It’s great to hear Studio is fast on the Pi 5 and both Radxa boards, and that Hello World builds and runs successfully.

I currently provide Linux ARM64 as a .tar.gz only. The .deb and .rpm packages on the download page are for x64 Intel/AMD machines. Trying that .deb on an ARM board would explain those dependency errors, even when the ARM versions of those libraries are already installed.

You’ve already found the right download by using the ARM64 tarball. I should make the architecture distinction clearer beside the package links. Thanks for flagging it!

einhugur

Raspberry Pi 4 8 GB Ram using SD card.

I could not extract the tar ball on this one at all, I just got endless errors on Mac tags in the file. I tried upgrading the OS to see if that would help but it did not (its a recent install)

Am not sure what is up with this one given we know the file can be extracted since all the others did it including the Raspberry Pi 5 which runs same OS as the 4.

Will do fresh test on this one later with new OS install maybe.

einhugur

Orange Pi 5 Plus 16 Gb RAM using NVMe disk using slightly older version of Armbian.

IDE runs, Hello world application runs, very fast.

einhugur

i think really what is important to know is if that Pi 4 gets all right or Usable speed or not.

I sort of had imagined that what makes sense for high level IDE like this would be something between Pi 4 and Pi 5.

I don't plan to test Pi 3 (which also is 64 bit)

Garry

I don't think I have a Pi 4 here anymore. I'm pretty sure I loaned it to a friend and haven't seen it since!

einhugur

Orange Pi Zero 3 1,5 GB RAM, using SD card

TERRIBLE (not unexpected this is super low end board)

Running IDE was beyond painful so painful that I gave up trying to drag in a button for hello world.

Note this is not unexpected as it is both low end board and a terrible board. It just shows that the expectation should be high end Arm64 board to run a high level IDE.

einhugur

Garry

Dont worry I will get it to run on the Pi 4 I just need to take time to put new OS on it, as I got no clue why that one would not extract the Tarball.

I am largely trying to find the line of what makes sense and what users can expect to work decently and what does not make any sense.

And so far all the super high end boards did really well. Though they all had NVMe in them, I don't think I have any high end with SD card in it to test, which likely would be quite a bit slower, at very least to boot the IDE.

Garry

Really appreciate you trying these boards out Björn. It really opens up new users and possibilities 🙂

RolfG

Raspberry 5b, 4GB RAM, 64GB SD-Card, debian trixie, LXDE, X11, dual monitor setup:
Runing out of the box, and:
Boy, is that fast (ide and compilation for debug run)! Had not expected that. Absolutely usable. I played a little letting the ai set something up or testing an example. No troubles.
Have not build an app so far.

RolfG

Another one:
Raspberry 4b, 8GB RAM, 64GB SD-Card, debian trixie, LXDE, X11, dual monitor setup:
Also runing out of the box. It's still fully usable at good speed. Typing in the ide feels still good, dragging controls around is fast and without flicker or hangs. Debug runs also ok.
Nice!