OpenCPN Runs on Embedded ARM

[svkatielee]

Ahh yes. Thank you Pavel, /var/log/syslog has all the details of running out of memory!

[deltasig]

Larry,
I'm sorry I forgot to mention the need for some swap space but Pavel always runs to the rescue!

What OS did you finally compile on? Judging by the time of your message the build process should be over by now (I'm just having my mid-day coffee any success?

DS

[svkatielee]

Originally Posted by deltasig

Larry,
What OS did you finally compile on? Judging by the time of your message the build process should be over by now (I'm just having my mid-day coffee any success?

DS

No success yet. I'm building on Armbian_5.05_Orangepih3_Debian_jessie_3.4.110_desk top.raw. Building directly on the Orange Pi PC. The default is only 128M swap, so I have not finished.

I think the slow compile time is also related to the slow SD, a Samsung HD class 10. But it dd'ed the image at 4.2 MB/s where the Samsung EVO 32 dd'ed at 19.1 MB/s. So it is obviously a slower SD card.

It's 6 am here and I have other things to do today, but the next step is to figure out how to increase the swap without having to re-download the upgrade packages over the 3rd world internet again.

[svkatielee]

I have success too!!
Leaving out the errors and re-tries this is what it took to compile:

Orange Pi PC w/ Samsung 8GBSD class 10, but only 4.2MB/s write speed copying the image
dd bs=4M of=/dev/mmcblk0 if=Armbian_5.05_Orangepih3_Debian_jessie_3.4.110_d esktop.raw

apt-get update; apt-get upgrade #79 MB again

sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake gettext git-core gpsd gpsd-clients libgps-dev wx-common libwxgtk3.0-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libgtk2.0-dev wx3.0-headers libbz2-dev libtinyxml-dev libportaudio2 portaudio19-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libexpat1-dev libcairo2-dev
git clone git://github.com/OpenCPN/OpenCPN.gitI

changed the CMakeLists.txt as follows in order for the Mali-400 to get in:
# find_path(OPENGLESv1_INCLUDE_DIR GLES/gl.h )
SET(OPENGLESv1_INCLUDE_DIR "/usr/include/GLES" )

I plugghed in a USB stick with a linux on it with a swap partition temporarily and did:
orangepipc# mkswap -f /dev/sda5
orangepipc# swapon /dev/sda5

To fix the: ERROR: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lEGL find the lib
ln -s /usr/lib/mali/libEGL.so /usr/lib/

make clean; make -j1

make install

It WORKS!! mostly.
Installing this way did not include the default world map or tcdata and I haven't heard the ships bells yet.

There were a number of steps to cleanup the armbian 5.05 for automount the USBsticks etc. that I intend to document on my blog. At the rate the Armbian team is progressing, the OS cleanup will not be necessary for long.

Thanks you guys for the help and all the previous posts that I was able to read.

[rgleason]

Is this writeup acceptable for pasting into an installation instruction sheet in the User Documentation? -It can be edited later, it is quite easy.
What would you title it? Also what is the link to your webpage? Thanks.

Orange Pi PC w/ Samsung 8GBSD class 10, but only 4.2MB/s write speed copying the image
dd bs=4M of=/dev/mmcblk0 if=Armbian_5.05_Orangepih3_Debian_jessie_3.4.110_d esktop.raw

apt-get update; apt-get upgrade #79 MB again

sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake gettext git-core gpsd gpsd-clients libgps-dev wx-common libwxgtk3.0-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libgtk2.0-dev wx3.0-headers libbz2-dev libtinyxml-dev libportaudio2 portaudio19-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libexpat1-dev libcairo2-dev
git clone git://github.com/OpenCPN/OpenCPN.gitI

changed the CMakeLists.txt as follows in order for the Mali-400 to get in:
# find_path(OPENGLESv1_INCLUDE_DIR GLES/gl.h )
SET(OPENGLESv1_INCLUDE_DIR "/usr/include/GLES" )

I plugghed in a USB stick with a linux on it with a swap partition temporarily and did:
orangepipc# mkswap -f /dev/sda5
orangepipc# swapon /dev/sda5

To fix the: ERROR: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lEGL find the lib
ln -s /usr/lib/mali/libEGL.so /usr/lib/

make clean; make -j1

make install

It WORKS!! mostly.
Installing this way did not include the default world map or tcdata and I haven't heard the ships bells yet.

There were a number of steps to cleanup the armbian 5.05 for automount the USBsticks etc. that I intend to document on my blog. At the rate the Armbian team is progressing, the OS cleanup will not be necessary for long.

[deltasig]

Larry,
Sounds good! did you try running OpenCPN with the OpenGL settings on? What FPS do you get?

DS

[svkatielee]

Originally Posted by rgleason

Is this writeup acceptable for pasting into an installation instruction sheet in the User Documentation? -It can be edited later, it is quite easy.
What would you title it? Also what is the link to your webpage? Thanks.

Yes, it would be OK to include these in the User Doc. However a note should be included about the current date/time frame. The armbian – linux for ARM development boards project is releasing updates regularly for all the Allwinner H3 arm chips. Anyone following these instructions will have to monitor the revisions.

The writeup has not really been spell-checked yet, but the title could be:
OpenCPN on Orange Pi an Allwinner H3 Arm SBC

My blog post is here:
KB7KMO Projects: OpenCPN on Orange Pi an Allwinner H3 Arm SBC

I would also make the .deb s available if anyone wants them. Not sure where to post them though.

deltasig:
I have not yet verified the optimized version (-DCFLAGS="-O2 -march=native) but should find time today. The DEBUG code showed FPS of 23 for CM93 vector charts and 100-300 for my raster charts of the Philippines.

[svkatielee]

rgleason and all,
You could have a look now. I cleaned the instructions up some.

KB7KMO Projects: OpenCPN on Orange Pi an Allwinner H3 Arm SBC

[rgleason]

I think it is best to just post your link with your title, in the User Documentation, and if you can try to keep your page up to date with the step by step details that would be great!

Thank you.

PS: Writeup Looks good to me, but I'm not familiar with the process...

See http://opencpn.org/ocpn/Install_Orange_pi_Allwinner
You can register on opencpn.org and then you will be able to edit this page to add more details.
See Editing the User Manual under the Developer section here
http://opencpn.org/ocpn/Edit-User-Manual-Main-Page

[svkatielee]

OpenCPN on armbian linux for ARM development boards, Debian Jessie.
I have the instructions for compiling for Orange Pi on my blog and for loading a debian package on github. I have update the link on the installing wiki.
Orange Pi | Official OpenCPN Homepage

However downloading a large binary from either place does not work well.

Is there a repository or ppa that I could put the packages into to make it easier to install?
(I turn my laptop off at night to save boat batteries)

[rgleason]

Larry,
I can certainly understand why you don't want your computer running all the time!
I think Pavel can help with that by providing an repository for your files on opencpn.org
download site.

Post Pavel and ask him...if he is not following this thread...
Send him a Private Message PM through your "User CP" to [Nohal]
please

[svkatielee]

I see there are install/build instructions for ARM in two places in the Documentation:
(should I split Orange Pi into two pieces, installing and compiling?)

OpenCPN Installation | Official OpenCPN Homepage
-Dedicated Marine OS - OpenPlotter
-Orange Pi
-Raspberry Pi RPI2\

Compiling - Linux | Official OpenCPN Homepage
-cubieboard2
-cubietruck
-Xoom
-slackware

[rgleason]

Yes, we have a Development manual and a User Manual. It would be appropriate to split the documentation. If you want to do it yourself you can register and log in, or I can do it.

[svkatielee]

Originally Posted by rgleason

Yes, we have a Development manual and a User Manual. It would be appropriate to split the documentation. If you want to do it yourself you can register and log in, or I can do it.

OK, I can split it. I have some updates to do to it in a day or so anyway.
Thanks,
Larry

[ealltech]

I have 3 Cubies, 2 CubieTrucks and a Cubie2. Both have Samsung S5P4418 Cortex A9 dual core processors. I use an SSD with all Three of them and they are lots faster than either of my 2 Rasberry's. OpenCPN builds and works fine on the Cubie's especially the CubieTrucks because they have 2G of RAM. The File System I use is Debian instead of Ubuntu cause its considerably faster.