How to start Mir and run Qt5 Demos on Raspberry Pi running Snappy Core

[Michael Nelson]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 3:35 PM Subhrajyoti Moitra <subhrajyotim at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
> I am experimenting with Raspi2 with Snappy core installed. I require GUI
> for the app I am building.
> After looking around it seems, Mir can run on Snappy.
>
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/14msTXe_cFulk9z4jFptEjFJzZx58b1mWU_r4VivLkfA/edit?hl=en&forcehl=1
>
> I am not sure how to compile the mir snappy packages for armhf
> architecture so I can run on the Raspi. The above article uses amd64 arch.
>
>
I've not (yet) tried building the mir snap on my rpi, but I did verify that
you can build armhf snaps on your rpi using by installing lxd:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/snappy-app-devel/2015-September/000337.html

Interested to hear if you can build a mir snap in a similar way (I did have
a few issues when I tried the above, like grabbing the resulting snap from
the lxc container, not sure if that's been fixed).

-Michael


> Any guidance/pointers on how to make GUI/x-server/window-manager work on
> snappy core.
> Any ideas on the same would be very helpfull.
>
> Thanks,
> Subhro.
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