Installing 6.1 on Raspbian is very easy. This is what I've done to install it in /opt:
cd /opt wget http://mirror.racket-lang.org/installers/6.1/racket-6.1-src-builtpkgs.tgz tar -xzvf racket-6.1-src-builtpkgs.tgz cd racket-6.1/src mkdir build cd build ../configure make; make install cd /opt sudo ln -sf racket-6.1 racket (in case you want to upgrade in the future you just change this link) sudo vi /etc/profile and, before export PATH, add: PATH=$PATH:/opt/racket/bin Franco > On 23 Feb 2015, at 02:46, Darren Cruse <darren.cr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > @Stephen I've honestly installed it on several devices now and can't remember > for sure exactly how I installed it on the Pi (it's been a while). I *think* > (and I'm running Raspbian btw) that I'd inititally simply done "sudo apt-get > install racket" and not had any trouble. Though I think you're right that > later I came to realize that had given me a version that wasn't the latest > 6.1 version, but in this pong game I've written I'd used something that > required 6.1, so I went ahead and downloaded from the racket site and built > from source on the pi. In either case I don't recall having much trouble. > If you do try and do have trouble, maybe post again and I can try a little > harder to retrace my steps. > > On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Stephen De Gabrielle > <spdegabrie...@gmail.com> wrote: > As much as racket compiling to Java bytecodes (Android/Dalvik or JVM) is > tempting - look how many people are excited by Clojure- it is beyond my skill > and available time. > > I was referring to building Racket on ARM/RPi. That you have built Racket for > the Pi is encouraging. Any tips/pitfalls I should be aware of? > > Kind regard > > Stephen > > > On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 at 12:42, Darren Cruse <darren.cr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >A solid Racket VM and GUI for Android and > >iOS apps would be awesome. > Agreed, but I'm going to try the Raspberry Pi. If I can succeed targeting ARM > on a familiar OS then hopefully cross compiling to a mobile OS won't be so > bad. And 'Minimal Dr Racket' on RPi would be awesome > > I got confused reading the above - I mean, I already run racket and drracket > on my (original) pi? > It's slow but it does run - what I learned is that's largely the fault of > poor graphics drivers on the pi. > It runs much better on the "odroid" that I bought right before christmas... > Not knowing the pi 2 was coming with very similar specs... (regret buying > the odroid oh well at least it as cheap). > > Then I realized: Are you saying above you want to work on an android port of > racket using android running on the pi (which is available) as your > development platform? > > That seems very reasonable. > > > > > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
