Question: is it (in the near future) possible to run this on the Raspberry Pi

[vapor]

Question: is it (in the near future) possible to run this on the Raspberry Pi

[vzsg]

Ah, I see. You'll have to install the toolbox manually, meaning:

• git clone https://github.com/vapor/toolbox
• cd toolbox
• swift build -c release
• sudo cp .build/release/Executable /usr/bin/vapor

Then the vapor commands should work just fine. In the rare chance that they don't, you can actually do everything with swift build or swift package anyway.

[ketzusaka]

I personally haven't done this, but I can say with almost absolute certainty that this is possible! All you need is the latest Ubuntu Linux Swift snapshot on the machine and ensure the linker setup to use the linux libraries, and you're good to go.

[tanner0101]

Yeah Vapor should definitely work on any device that runs Ubuntu 14.04 or 15.10.

[biscuitehh]

http://blog.andrewmadsen.com/post/136137396480/swift-on-raspberry-pi - I've heard of issues with Swift Package Manager and ARM devices but I imagine that'll change soon.

[ketzusaka]

Ah I didn't realize Pi was on arm, but Linux Swift should generally work there (or be made to soon) since it runs fine on iOS devices, which are arm

[bynelus]

I successfully got Swift installed on my pi 3. Didn't had the time to test it though, so I'll let you know.

First thing I'm going to try is to get Vapor working 👍 would love to get this device into my product setup..

[tanner0101]

Sweet. Keep us updated.

[tanner0101]

Any updates on this @NielsKoole?

[bynelus]

Not yet, tried to get Vapor running with Make but that unfortunately gave some errors. So now I'm waiting for the newest swift executable built for armv7 to be available. Heard from @iachievedit that he will update this somewhere in April. So to be continued.

[tanner0101]

Closing this for inactivity. Let me know if you have any luck.

[8bit-echo]

Swift 3.1.1 is available for raspberry pi now. would love to see this issue picked back up. Step by step here. Uriamo - an Update on Swift 3.1.1 for Raspberry Pi Zero, 1, 2, 3

[vzsg]

What needs to be picked up?
After installing Swift with that guide, Vapor works just fine on RPi 3.

(There might be incompatibilities on RPi 2, for which unfortunately no one with a real device cared enough after working around locally. AFAIK the team has no such device at hand.)

[8bit-echo]

Sorry, I should have clarified. I'm unable to get the vapor CLI to work since it isn't available for arm architectures. Unless I'm missing something?

[luisdelarosa]

Verified that Vapor runs on Raspberry Pi 3 with Swift 3.1.1, using the instructions that vzsg provided above. Note that I had to install libssl-dev as well, or else it would complain about CTLS when doing vapor build on a project.

[Andrewangeta]

@luisdelarosa What linux distort are you using?

[8bit-echo]

@Andrewangeta I was able to successfully run vapor on both Raspbian and the armv7 version of ubuntu MATE when following the instructions above.

[luisdelarosa]

@Andrewangeta I'm running Ubuntu Mate 16.04 for Raspberry Pi available at https://ubuntu-mate.org/raspberry-pi/
Note that I think it still does complain about CTLS during subsequent builds, so we may want to open up an issue around that.

[vzsg]

If it's just a note about installing ctls with apt-get, you can safely ignore that message.