Linux build of Tulip Desktop

[bwhitman]

I got this going recently. Wasn't too bad. There's a lot of testing to do. MIDI doesn't work yet. But it builds and runs fine on my Linux VM. I've updated the desktop instructions on how to build.

[jacquesgroenewald]

Thanks for the great work on Tulip -

Trying to follow the instructions on the Linux desktop build

Do I need to download anything? I am sure I am missing something obvious
(I am on a recent release of Ubuntu)

I ran: sudo apt install libsdl2-dev libffi-dev. This worked fine.

Now do I build it? Or how can I simply run it?

folder tulip/linux does not exist

Thanks in advance

[bwhitman]

You first need to clone this repository, like

git clone https://github.com/bwhitman/tulipcc.git
cd tulipcc/tulip/linux/
./build.sh
./dev/tulip # to run it

[diflouroethane]

^ when I run the biuld again it can't find the ffi or SDL header files. it says ther is no such file or directory.

[diflouroethane]

i will worry about my fedora problems later, and do something else for now.

[bwhitman]

Have you run the yum commands from here: https://github.com/shorepine/tulipcc/blob/main/docs/tulip_desktop.md

sudo yum install SDL2-devel libffi-devel

[diflouroethane]

yes. I did, and it said something like Package/capability 'SDL2-devel' is already requested and exits.

[bwhitman]

Hm , yeah, this feels like a system level issue. I don't think this is related to Tulip, and I don't know enough about Fedora package management to help, sorry!

[diflouroethane]

ok, will just hope for a real one for birthday, thanks tho

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[znmeb]

I got it to build on Fedora but the menu items in the lower right corner segfaulted. Do I need more dependencies installed?

[andypiper]

I'm seeing the same thing on Fedora. Also, there is no filesystem (ls shows a blank response, cd('/sys') works but does not contain the examples, etc)

[bwhitman]

ls should show a blank list on startup -- that's your home folder, with presumably nothing in it yet.
cd /sys on Desktop will cd to your computers /sys folder if you have one. On Tulip Desktop, our /sys is actually ../sys (which should have ex and im in it. You can use tulip.root_dir()+'sys' for a way to do this that works on both hardware and Desktop.

[znmeb]

I have the build working in both Fedora40 and Debian 12 "bookworm" Distrobox containers. The Debian one works fine - "Voices" starts up, although I haven't tried to get sound out of it yet. The Fedora 40 one segfaults on "Voices" and a few of the others - I didn't try them all.

I can run in just about any conceivable Distrobox container, so I don't need Fedora to work. Let me know if you want me to troubleshoot it.