running Sloeber on a Raspi

[PerennialNovice]

Is it possible to run Sloeber on a Raspberry PI 4?
Does not work "out of the box"

[jantje]

I have no clue but:.
Does CDT work on that platform?
Does eclipse work on that platform?
Does Arduino IDE work on that platform?

If any of these answers is no; it is not likely Sloeber will work on that platform.

[PerennialNovice]

with a bit of fiddling and cursing it works :)
had to go the way of 1st installing CDT and adding Sloeber via marketplace
performance is not really good on a RasPi 4 8Gb but it works

[jantje]

performance is not really good on a RasPi 4 8Gb but it works

That is as I would expect. You are after all running a high end development tool on a low end machine.

with a bit of fiddling and cursing it works :)

Well happy to see there is a way to get it to work.

[PerennialNovice]

Hi jantje,

here is a (very) quick writeup of the steps the led to success for me:

• install latest eclipse CDT

• proceed according to the wokaround of issue Sloeber plugin won't install on 2021-06 after most recent update #1361

• I then ran into a timeout when sloeber tries to download avr board package. So I downloaded manually and copied it to [EclipseInstallationFolder]/arduinoPlugin/downloads

• next thing (boards not parsing) was that, despite Java 11 beeing installed on the system (I don't know whether it came pre-installed because I actively downloaded and installed OpenJDK at the first attempt of installing and running sloeber product), I got error messages that could be identified (reading issue board jsons not parsing #1403) as related to a too recent Java version. That can be fixed by modifying eclipse.ini / sloeber.ini to us the local Java VM (/usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-arm64/bin for my setup)

I think that is about it what it took to get Sloeber running on an Raspberry Pi 4

maybe it is of use to someone sometime :)