Cubieboard 2 (A20) not working

MartinB · October 10, 2013, 11:14am

I know it is described in here:

https://github.com/openframeworks/openFrameworks/issues/2537

but for me it was a bummer. I thought that it was more or less compatible with Rpi, but as it turned out, no.

  
../../../libs/openFrameworksCompiled/project/makefileCommon/config.shared.mk:259: *** couldn't find some pkg-config packages, did you run the latest install_dependencies.sh?. Stop.

Two weeks of expectations and whole day gone.

MartinB · October 10, 2013, 3:58pm

Ok, that was a bit lazy to whine. I tried headless setup, with no change. Same error. I will try to dive deeper into makefile bussiness and hopefully I will manage to get it somehow working

sgbzona · February 21, 2014, 9:27am

Hey, I’m doing the same here… Everything was installed correctly, but when you compile an OF example, just I got the same message like you…

Misconfiguration … That’s so sad :(, I will try to see what can I do on the weekend…

MartinB · February 21, 2014, 12:34pm

I have not touched CubieBoard for a while, but check this conversation on GitHub, seems like there is hope after all…

Good Luck!

sgbzona · February 22, 2014, 4:50am

hey… well, I have some small advances abou this.

First you need to install using synapic:
libglapi-mesa libgles1-mesa libgles1-mesa-dev libgles2-mesa libgles2-mesa-dev
then just check that all is configure
pkg-config cairo zlib gstreamer-app-1.0 gstreamer-1.0 gstreamer-video-1.0 gstreamer-base-1.0 libudev freetype2 fontconfig sndfile openal portaudio-2.0 openssl libpulse-simple alsa gl glesv1_cm glesv2 egl gtk+-2.0 libmpg123 --cflags
Now, I have an issue compiling one of the examples:

when I do make I got the following eror:
��: File name too long make[2]: *** [../../../libs/openFrameworksCompiled/lib/linuxarmv7l/obj/Release/libs/openFrameworks/3d/ofEasyCam.o] Error 127 make[1]: *** [Release] Error 2 make: *** [Release] Error 2 linaro@cubietruck:~/of_v0.8.0_linuxarmv7l_release/examples/gl/textureExample$
Not sure now what to do… any ideas??

digitalhack · February 23, 2014, 3:47am

I am not sure if this would help but I have a development branch that a couple of us have running on Allwinner SoCs. It runs in a framebuffer on the console using the mali drivers. Installation instructions can be found at: http://digitalhacksblog.blogspot.com/2014/02/openframeworks-sunxi-mfb-update-3-was.html.

digitalhack

sgbzona · February 25, 2014, 3:44am

hello,

I have just download the file from your git, bu there are issues. when I do the make i got he followong:

���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������: File name too long
make[1]: *** [version] Error 1
make[1]: version/version: Command not found
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/linaro/Downloads/sunxi-mali-include-updates'
VERSION="" (Detected)
make[1]: version/version: Command not found
make[1]: version/version: Command not found
make[1]: version/version: Command not found
make[1]: version/version: Command not found
Makefile.config:54: Unknown/unhandled Mali Version ""
Makefile.config:55: Use VERSION=(r2p4,r3p0,r3p1) instead
make[1]: version/version: Command not found
Makefile.config:56: *** Unknown/unhandled Mali Version "".  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/linaro/Downloads/sunxi-mali-include-updates'
make: *** [config.mk] Error 2

I think here is a problem with make, but I don ge it. any ideas??

fieldOfView · February 25, 2014, 9:37pm

There is something fishy going on with your “make”; that “File name too long” thing is not supposed to happen. Do you just type “make” and this happens, or are you cutting/pasting all the lines in the instructions at once?

The path /Downloads/sunxi-mali-include-updates is also a bit suspect. You did not use git to get the sunxi-mali project, did you?

sgbzona · February 26, 2014, 6:58am

Hi, I have re-installed the full system.
For some reason, I can’t do make o any other sudo commands.

If I yped:

Make

I got this:

7\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377': command not found

if I do a sudo make

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Something is wrong…

fieldOfView · February 26, 2014, 7:29am

Something is wrong…

Yep… The \377 stuff is not supposed to be there. Note that � is pretty much the same thing, just printed differently. Solve that first, and then try again.

I see that you are using Linaro? I am using Cubian (http://cubian.org) and it is working fine for me.

hv_francesco · May 1, 2014, 7:37pm

I was able to get OF on Cubieboard2 with latest Cubian os, It was a bit tricky to get it compile and to have hardware acceleration, but now it rocks.

sgbzona · May 1, 2014, 11:41pm

Hello,

Can you share the general process for installation?

Thanks.

hv_francesco · May 2, 2014, 8:06am

in order to get OF on Cubieboard2, I suggest to do something like this:

get the latest Cubian distribution (it may work with others linux variants, but I’ve tested Cubian and it works fine)
you have to make changes to OF_ROOT/libs/openFrameworksCompiled/project/linuxarmv7l/config.linuxarmv7l.default.mk as it seems gles, gles2 and egl do not work with pkg-config in Cubian

comment out these lines:
PLATFORM_PKG_CONFIG_LIBRARIES += glesv1_cm
PLATFORM_PKG_CONFIG_LIBRARIES += glesv2
PLATFORM_PKG_CONFIG_LIBRARIES += egl

and add instead following lines:

PLATFORM_LIBRARIES += GLESv2
PLATFORM_LIBRARIES += GLESv1_CM
PLATFORM_LIBRARIES += EGL

now, as we want OF to use hardware acceleration we will have to install libsunxi-mali-x11 and libsunxi-mali-x11-dev packages if they are not already there.
Unfortunately seems OF does not like the old GLES and GLES2 headers that come with libsunxi-mali-x11-dev and if you try to compile now you will face errors due to double definitions.
I’ve solved in a dirty hackish way: I’ve overwritten gles and gles2 headers using mesa ones, personally I’ve downloaded libgles1-mesa-dev and libgles2-mesa-dev deb packages (only downloaded, not installed), extracted them and replaced the header files, but you can probably have a look at this fork of mali drivers that has newer headers https://github.com/digitalhack/sunxi-mali.
Anyway, at this point I’ve compiled OF expecting a lot of link problems, but it went smooth and clean, and works beautifully with hardware acceleration.
So far the only problem I’ve found is a link problem when trying to compile openCV addon, but if you search the forum you will find a solution, with a link to a working version of CV libraries for Cubieboard