Guide - Compiling LuxRender for ARM (Raspberry Pi)

[Eros]

Hi All

As people might have seen, I already had a go (and was successful) at building Luxrays/luxrender on an ARM system. Since the Raspberry Pi is getting close to shipping, and I am eagerly awaiting mine, I compiled luxrays and luxrender on the official debian SD card image emulated in QEMU. In principle anyone who does this will be able to use the image (with compiled lux) and put it straight into the Pi when it arrives.

I wrote this on my wordpress blog, I wonder if I might put it up on the wiki?

The guide borrows heavily from the wiki and other guides for building on ubuntu, so apologies for copying, though in this case a step by step guide was required. http://3drenderblog.wordpress.com/2012/ ... pberry-pi/

[hedphelym]

Very nice, thanks for sharing!
I have a sheevaplug that is running debian ARM (cpu only) but it would be fun to test on that too just for fun.

I'm also getting some raspberrypi's, gonna use them for various things,and now for luxrender too

[dougal2]

Just for laughs I might have a go soon at whipping up an angstrom/openembedded recipe too, which should allow targeting quite a few arm and intel based platforms.

[sprocket]

Im thinking render farm....

[Lord Crc]

Im thinking render arm....

There, fixed it for ya

[sprocket]

haha. have enough of them and you would have an arm-y

[dougal2]

You must be b-arm-y to think you'll get any good performance out of those things

[sprocket]

haha, im sure you would only need a battalion of them.

I think the memory would be the problem... how much ram is left for the scene?

Im still waiting on my first solider to arrive... 18 week lead time :/

[sprocket]

so im now starting from scratch again after running out of space on the sd card and it all went wrong.

looking in aptitude the boost package and cmake is now upto date. bit of googling to find out what to do, and i came up with this:
apt-get install libboost-dev cmake

it works, but are they the right things to install?

edit: well looks like libboost-dev wasnt right