Dear list members,

I tried to install ConTeXt on my Rock64 single board computer, which has an arm64 processor.

On March 10, 2020, Hans Hagen wrote on the list:

... Mojca and I decided to support yet another platform, this time arm 64 bit for which we use a raspberry pi running ubuntu 64 bit, which brings the platforms supported by the build bot to 15:...

On the Install page of ConTeXt garden I found ARM 64b as one of the options. So after downloading and extracting I ran the install.sh script. It gave me the error:

Your system linux aarch64 is not supported (yet). You can ask on the ConTeXt mailing-list: ntg-context@ntg.nl.

Is it really possible to install ConTeXt on my Rock64 and what should I do to achieve that?

On 6/10/2020 10:53 AM, Sytse Knypstra wrote: the question is: do the bninaries for rpi 64 run on the rock .. same processor so ... you can try to install the rpi zip and see if it runs; otherwise we need a rock 64 in the compile farm Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

On 6/10/2020 12:17 PM, Lutz Haseloff wrote:

Hi all,

I got my system working by quick and dirty patching install.sh

I have now

PLATFORM="linux-aarch64"

after the last esac and all works like expected.

I would like to have a check for aarch64 in the install.sh too. you can prototype that and tell what to adapt

----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

On 6/10/2020 7:07 PM, Lutz Haseloff wrote:

I think, there is simply no rule for aarch64 in install.sh

I now patched it in a better way.

ok

The binaries for aarch64 work like a charm on my device, a Samsung Galaxy A50 Smartphone. Does that really work well? I suppose the cpu and mem is ok, but how about the disk. How do you edit on such a device?

(Over the time lmtx became more efficient in terms on memory (access) and such. Compiling the luametatex manual on the RPI 4 (somewhat overclocked) takes 3 times when my laptop does which I consider okay, although the aim of course is less, which is hard because it then also runs faster on the laptop. Not that there's much to gain. The bottleneck is more at the lua end nowadays.) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

I run the "Userland" App from Playstore. That App integrates well with Android. I can edit with vim in the kali linux terminal or with any other Editor for Android like Jota+. I can try to compile the luametatex manual and send you the results. Greetings Lutz Am 10. Juni 2020 19:27:28 MESZ schrieb Hans Hagen :

On 6/10/2020 7:07 PM, Lutz Haseloff wrote:

...

I think, there is simply no rule for aarch64 in install.sh

I now patched it in a better way.

ok

...

The binaries for aarch64 work like a charm on my device, a Samsung Galaxy A50 Smartphone. Does that really work well? I suppose the cpu and mem is ok, but how about the disk. How do you edit on such a device?

(Over the time lmtx became more efficient in terms on memory (access) and such. Compiling the luametatex manual on the RPI 4 (somewhat overclocked) takes 3 times when my laptop does which I consider okay, although the aim of course is less, which is hard because it then also runs faster on the laptop. Not that there's much to gain. The bottleneck is more at the lua end nowadays.)

Hans

----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

I followed Lutz Haseloff's suggestion and inserted PLATFORM="linux-aarch64" after the last esac in install.sh and indeed it installed ConTeXt LMTX. I assume the insertion of the next two lines in the install.sh file on line 50 would solve the problem for future arm64 users (I didn't check):             aarch64)                 PLATFORM="linux-aarch64" ;; Hans and Lutz, thank you for your advice. Sytse P.S. This afternoon I accidentally sent this e-mail to a wrong address; I now see that Lutz proposes the same patch.

Hi Hans, hi all thank you for including the rule for aarch64 into install.sh. Now the setup routine works for me out of the box. Thanks again Greetings Lutz Am 10. Juni 2020 13:39:51 MESZ schrieb Hans Hagen :

On 6/10/2020 12:17 PM, Lutz Haseloff wrote:

...

Hi all,

I got my system working by quick and dirty patching install.sh

I have now

PLATFORM="linux-aarch64"

after the last esac and all works like expected.

I would like to have a check for aarch64 in the install.sh too. you can prototype that and tell what to adapt

----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------