Support for building different arch's such as Rpi / Arm #85
Description
Hi,
I've been experimenting to see if I can get the demo app to build then run on a Rpi with ubuntu mate installed (17.10), I've managed to get it working.
But I'd like to request if we could specify different arch's in the options / arguments to electronize build though to make it easier
I've included some info below for anyone that wants to have a go.
Build for Linux X64
First run electron build for linux-x64
dotnet build
dotnet electronize build linux
Build for Linux arm
Next run dotnet publish specifying the arm arch
dotnet publish -r linux-arm --output "obj\desktop\linux-arm\bin"
Next copy over the api directory / main.js / package.json
cd obj\desktop\linux-arm
xcopy ..\linux\api .\api
xcopy ..\linux\main.js .\
xcopy ..\linux\package.json .\
xcopy ..\linux\package-lock.json .\
Next run npm
npm install
npm install electron-packager --global
Finally manually generate the package
electron-packager . --platform=linux --arch=armv7l --out="electron-packager . --platform=linux --arch=armv7l --out="..\..\..\bin\desktop-arm" --overwrite" --overwrite
Deploying to the Rpi
- At this point zip up the files under bin\desktop-arm
- copy across to the Pi
- unzip on the Pi
Setting up on the Rpi
If you get an error regarding MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 then just try
rm ~/.Xauthority
If this has been built under windows instead of Linux
Then once you've unzipped the contents onto the rpi box you need to make ElectronNET.Host executable. But there's also other files that need to be made executable as well (not exactly sure which ones) to avoid other random errors.
To get around this cd into the directory where you've extracted the files and just make everything executable as a quick workaround
find . -exec chmod +x {} \;
At this point you should be able to run with just
./ElectronNET.Host
I would add this to the wiki but I don't think it's open for public access