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Getting your Raspberry Pi ready for openFrameworks

Install Raspbian "Buster"

  1. Install the latest Raspbian (Debian Buster) image from the Raspberry Pi downloads page
  2. Follow the instructions at Raspberry Pi Preparing Your SD Card to get Raspbian installed onto your SD Card

Configure the Raspberry Pi

This guide assumes you are starting from a fresh Raspbian install and that you are able to connect to the Raspberry Pi and send it commands.

If you're installing Raspbian via NOOBS, SSH access is disabled by default since the 2016-11-25 release, which makes setup in headless mode difficult. If you don't have access to a keyboard and monitor and plan to set up from scratch in the headless mode, make sure you follow this guide and add the ssh file onto the boot partition.

You can enter commands on the Pi by:

  1. SSH into the Pi from a different computer
  2. Attach a keyboard and monitor to the Pi.
    • With Stretch the Raspberry Pi now boots the X11 window system by default, open up LXTerminal from the shortcut on the Raspberry Pi Desktop
    • Type in the command sudo raspi-config

We need to make sure the CPU has 192MB of RAM in order to compile openFrameworks. Once you have compiled openFrameworks you may want to repeat this step with 128

  1. Select 1 Expand Filesystem and hit Enter
  2. Select 7 Advanced Options and hit Enter
    • Select A3 Memory Split and hit Enter
    • Type 64 and Hit <ok>

openFrameworks does not use the X11 Desktop for running OF applications. You can save GPU memory by disabling it. This is optional but suggested.

  1. Select 3 Boot Options
  2. Select B1 Console or B2 Console Autologin

For openFrameworks 0.11.0 and onwards OF needs to use the new experimental GL driver instead of the legacy driver.

  1. Select 7 Advanced Options and hit Enter
    • Select either GL Driver Fake KMS or GL Driver Full KMS or from the options and hit Enter

For older OF releases with Wheezy or Jessie select the legacy driver instead.

Unlike Wheezy, Debian Jessie onwards does not display the IP address on boot. You may wish to get the current IP by typing ifconfig. The IP address is under the eth0 entry for wired ethernet. This can possibly change on reboot.

  1. Reboot when prompted or type sudo reboot
  2. Assuming you have internet access run these commands to update the software to the latest packages.
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Note: The above steps may take a little while.

Download openFrameworks

You now can download openFrameworks and uncompress it into a folder. Using a Shell, The following commands will download openFrameworks and uncompress it into the folder /home/pi/openFrameworks

For the Raspberry Pi using OF for arm6

cd
wget https://openframeworks.cc/versions/v0.11.0/of_v0.11.0_linuxarmv6l_release.tar.gz
mkdir openFrameworks
tar vxfz of_v0.11.0_linuxarmv6l_release.tar.gz -C openFrameworks --strip-components 1

Install packages and compile openFrameworks:

Make sure you didn't skip the Memory Split step in the above section Configure the Raspberry Pi or it will eventually fail.

The time for these steps will depend on whether you are on a RPI1, RPI2 or RPI3 and the speed of the Raspbian mirrors to download the packages.

Assuming openFrameworks is located at /home/pi/openFrameworks run the following commands to install the necessary packages and compile openFrameworks.

cd /home/pi/openFrameworks/scripts/linux/debian
sudo ./install_dependencies.sh

You are now ready to compile openFrameworks!

make Release -C /home/pi/openFrameworks/libs/openFrameworksCompiled/project

Use EGL instead of GLFW

As of 0.11.0 the default window is ofAppGLFWWindow. If you want to use the older ofAppEGLWindow approach, comment out USE_GLFW_WINDOW = 1 in libs/openFrameworksCompiled/project/linuxarmv6l/config.linuxarmv6l.default.mk

Speeding up compiling

Compiling natively on the Raspberry Pi takes a long time. openFrameworks applications typically take much less time than the core library. Taking the time to set up a cross-compiling solution will save you enormous amounts of time.

Raspberry Pi Cross Compiling Guide

Compile your first app

openFrameworks ships with a bunch of examples located in the openFrameworks/examples folder. Inside examples the projects are sorted by the categories:

  • 3d
  • addons
  • communication
  • empty
  • events
  • gl
  • gles
  • graphics
  • gui
  • math
  • sound
  • utils
  • video

Inside each category folder are a few examples of each. To run them you need to go into the folder, build and run.

For example, here is how you build and run the polygonExample:

cd /home/pi/openFrameworks/examples/graphics/polygonExample
make
make run

Unlike other platforms, OF Raspberry Pi projects do not make use of the projectGenerator. To create your own project from scratch, copy examples/empty/emptyExample into apps/myApps/yourProjectName folder and start from there

For example:

cp -R /home/pi/openFrameworks/examples/empty/emptyExample /home/pi/openFrameworks/apps/myApps/myRpiApp
cd /home/pi/openFrameworks/apps/myApps/myRpiApp
make
make run

It is critical to keep your application directory 3 levels below the openFrameworks directory.

Have fun! :)