Am 01.10.2019 um 22:39 schrieb John C Frain:
> Can I report that all the packages required to build gretl on a
> Raspberry Pi are available on the Raspbrian repository? I compiled the
> git version of gretl (2019d of 2019-09-30) on a Raspberry Pi 2.
> . (gcc-doc was not available but configure finished without it.)
> Make was slow (> 1 hour). Once installed, gretl loads fast and the
> responses to the few examples that I ran were also good. Thus all the
> mathematical and other libraries required to compile gretl on ARM 7
> are available in the Rasbrian repository. The current Pi 4 should be
> much faster.
>
Thanks for the practical information. Indeed I have a Raspberry Pi 3 (or
3+?) lying around which hasn't seen any use yet. Maybe something for the
coming Winter months...
Do I understand correctly that you did a standard build including the
graphical GUI version?
Yes, I followed the instructions in the User's Guide. No package gcc-doc was on the repository - I don't think that this is a problem. For pkgconfig I installed pkg-config. I installed any of the missing -dev packages listed in the guide (libgtk-3-dev for libgtk3.0-dev) and added libjson-glib-dev and gtksourceview-3.0 - the last two appear to be required but are not pleted mentioned in the guide. The download from git and the sequence of configure, make, and make install com[pleted exactly as in the guide (sudo ldconfig was required before gretl would run). The GUI looks very like the Linux (Mint 19.2) or indeed the Windows 10 version.
Is there a test program that is used to test the compilation? If so I might try it on this ARM version
cheers
sven
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