Possible to use on non-windows systems?

[themightyoarfish]

Seeing this is electron-based, it should be possible to run on any system. Attempting to npm install on macos errors because the electron release url is incorrect: https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/download/v7.0.1/electron-v7.0.1-darwin-arm64.zip

which I assume would affect all other systems also?

[m-schuetz]

Works on windows. "darwin-arm64" seems to be mac specific, not sure how and where this is generated. Maybe you could try to update the electron version to the latest version in package.json. Maybe the required builds didn't exist with the old vesion of electron?

[m-schuetz]

Yeah, only x64 but no arm builds of electron 7.0.1 for darwin/mac: https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v7.0.1

[themightyoarfish]

I put in the latest version instead, after which npm install succeeds, but npm run start opens an empty application. Too bad.

[themightyoarfish]

Not much interesting logging

> npm run start

> potree_desktop@1.7.0 start
> electron .

objc[7410]: Class WebSwapCGLLayer is implemented in both /System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/WebCore.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/libANGLE-shared.dylib (0x2282ddb50) and /Users/rasmus/Downloads/source_builds/PotreeDesktop/node_modules/electron/dist/Electron.app/Contents/Frameworks/Electron Framework.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/libGLESv2.dylib (0x108ea6978). One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.

[m-schuetz]

Any error messages in the electron/chrome dev tools? (ctrl+shift+i on windows, or view->toggle developer tools)

[raycaster08]

It doesn't work on Macs, because PotreeConverter is built on the windows platform. You can't run .exe on a mac. I am trying to perfect the electron build on different platforms.

[raycaster08]

#31 (comment)

The main reason it won't work on m1 is that it won't run PotreeConverter.exe on windows platform. I added a PotreeConverter compiled for the mac m1 platform to the repo and it ran successfully

$ git clone https://github.com/yurui01/PotreeDesktop.git
$ cd PotreeDesktop
$ npm install
$ electron .