Realm-js: Support for Raspberry Pi

[jlubeck]

Are you planning on supporting Raspberry Pi 3 at some point? I saw the other issues, but they are closed and over a year old. So maybe plans have changed?

If you are not, can anybody give me any pointers on how I can compile everything from scratch to make it work? I don't have any experience on compiling on Linux. I'd really appreciate it!

[kneth]

@fealebenpae How far did you get with RPi support?

[fealebenpae]

Everything works with a manual build of core, sync, and realm-js, but it's not automated on CI. We don't have publicly-available builds.

[roberhofer]

@jlubeck : We have a prototype, though nothing officially released. It's not quite the focus right now, though will be later in 2019. Curious though what use-case you have in mind?

[jlubeck]

Hey @roberhofer, we are currently working with some customs devices which have ARM processors. They come with an Ubuntu Core container and run NodeJS without issues. We need to use a database on the program that we run in them, and Realm was my first choice because it's what I use on our mobile apps as well and I'm familiar with it.

I developed everything locally on an ubuntu virtual machine, and everything was working great. Until I wanted to run it on these devices and I was hit with the problem that it couldn't be compiled there.

The only reason I was asking for Raspberry Pi is because I believe is the most popular ARM device out there for quick prototyping. But in reality, I'm looking for ARM support.

So either would be fine by me!

[kneth]

v10.0.0-beta.1 introduced support for Raspberry Pi.