Hi Holger,

    if you have time and inclination I (we) would very much appreciate you taking a look at the autoconf issue that is preventing the Unicode plug-in from being built in the ARM64 build on Linux Raspberry Pi (build.linux64ARMv8 IIRC).

Cheers!

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> On Feb 20, 2021, at 6:32 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 09:12:46PM -0500, David T. Lewis wrote:
>>> On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 04:24:18PM -0800, tim Rowledge wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 2021-02-20, at 3:29 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I'd like to try NuScratch on my AMD Linux box, can you remind me what pango
>>>> and/or cairo development libraries you installed for the UnicodePlugin? Some
>>>> magic apt-get commands I presume.
>>> 
>>> On the Pi it looks like
>>> sudo apt-get install  libcairo2-dev libpango1.0-dev mesa-common-dev 
>>> should do it, though Subbu also suggested libgl1-mesa-dev libgl1-mesa-glx instead of mesa-common-dev.
>>> 
>>> I'm not completely sure which choice is better; I had 'fun' with the directory naming clash for the glib includes, something that still needs a proper resolution
>>> 
>> 
>> Thanks. I installed libcairo2-dev libpango1.0-dev mesa-common-dev which
>> now gives me a UnicodePlugin for the interpreter VM build, so I think
>> these are the necessary libraries. The Spur VM build is still excluding
>> the plugin due to something in the configure step. If I figure it out
>> I'll report back, probably not tonight though :-/
>> 
>> Dave
>> 
> 
> I think there must be something about hitting <send> on an email that
> causes problems to magically solve themselves.
> 
> I just copied the UnicodePlugin from my interpreter VM build into the
> Spur VM folder, and now NuScratch is running on my amd64 Linux PC.
> 
> I'll worry about the configure issues some other day, right now I'm
> happy to confirm that NuScratch is running on my PC :-)
> 
> Dave
>