Hi Alan,

Take a look to this thread indilib.org/forum/development/9372-compi...t-github-source.html. I've successfully compiled KStars/Ekos on 64bits Raspbian using the commit commented on this thread.

Rafa

Rafa, Thank You, I will. I’m using the 32 bit system at the moment, but I’m willing to try the 64 bit OS to see if that improves the performance on the Pi

FYI for anyone else encountering build issues that resemble this . I had a bit of an issue compiling KStars with the script recently when the script did not properly recompile updates to Stellarsolver 2.0. Although it looked like it recompiled it, something old must have remained that caused an issue. Solution should be as simple as deleting old build files.

I had an issue compiling Core INDI today, reported as 'Could not find Libev'. It was a simple fix to reinstall/update it.

Yep, that's a brand new dependency. I will have to update all my scripts for building Kstars to include it.

Thank you.
I also encountered this while building KStars at a point when it is generating files called Options.h and Options.cpp.
Googling 'Too many signals to create unique bit masks' is no help. Any idea what's going on there?
I've deleted everything in the AstroRoot folder to try from a completely clean build. I'm still waiting to see if that helps.


Edit: It failed to compile again

That looks to me like a bug in the KStars build. I will look into it. There aren't a lot of results when I google that message, so I don't think it is a common issue, but maybe some recent change in KStars caused this.

It's due to recent change in KStars options. I've added a method around that for older systems, please git pull and try again.

Seems to be working. Thank you
Can you elaborate on the 'older systems' point?
Is a system resources issue? I was compiling on a Raspberry Pi 4 with only 4gb of memory.

I have tried this script on a Raspberry Pi 4 running Raspbian Bullseye 64-bit. One issue is that it messes up my wifi and lan connections, network manager never starts on its own. This I can easily fix myself.
However, a more devestating problem is that none of the astrophotgraphy related software seems to be built/installed(or whatever the terminology is) correctly. A folder containing several gigabytes of data called Astroroot is created which does contain a set of folders named after the various astrophotography software. But I can not find any way of running them. There are no icons created either on the desktop or in the "start menu". How do I find out what has gone wrong so that I can fix it?

On Raspbian, all the astrophotography software needs to be built from scratch since there isn't anything like the PPA for Raspbian and the software in the package managers for Debian which Raspbian is built on is way out of date. From what you posted here, it sounds like you built a good deal of the software most likely. Did you have any information about any errors that might have printed to the console? It is possible that it all built perfectly and you just didn't get any icons for running it on the desktop. Maybe something about the Desktop on Raspbian has changed?

It took well over an hour for the Pi to run the script through, or whatever it did do. But I guess that stuff was built, and it did not only set up the folders.
I did quickly look through of everything written in the terminal, but given that there were probably thousands of rows and I actually did not really not know what to look for there could very well possible be tons of problem that I missed. Is it possible everything stated in the terminal while running the script is saved somewhere so that one can look through it afterwards?

Sure, it is possible that it simply did not manage to create desktop shortcuts. If so, how do I create them myself?

I also have an SD card setup with Astroberry. So, for reference, I booted that up and looked where the kstars shortcut in Astroberry pointed to on the SD. The target folder was a folder called "application" which contained a type of object(again I do not know the proper terminology) for each of the programs installed in Astroberry, that is kstars, PHD2, internet browser and what not. The corresponding folder on my new installation had all the Raspbian regulars but all of the program that was supposed to be installed by the script were missing.

I am a Windows guy and pretty much completely Linux illiterate and I do not really have a clue how to proceed.