Hey!
Wondering if anyone managed to have holochain working on a pi or similar 64bit ARM-based computer?
Hi @ddd-mtl! So I tried and tried with the rpi model 4,but nix doesn’t support it 
(issue). I even built nix from source with no luck, I’d always bump into some issue. What model do you have?
I don’t have any yet.
Holochain only works on 64bit systems anyway so only a RPi 3 or 4 would work.
But according to the issue thread you shared (thanks!), some people managed to have NixOS working on a RPi 4.
Yeah yeah, I actually managed to install it, and then I on nix-shell holochain.love, I got an error building some derivation (never got than on my laptop) , and couldn’t figure it out… Maybe you have more luck, if you do ping me!
oh okay.
Have you tried without nix? Just grabing and building holochain-rust on debian directly?
i’m curious to know if you tried it with Raspbian or with Ubuntu, on your rpi4? (or another distro?)
edit: it would be awesome to get this working, as then a new holochain node could be really cheaply started (or just one to test things with locally). i’m not technical enough (I’m a beginner web dev) to judge whether it’s worth it at this point to focus on making it compatible with rpi and other ARM computers (so take it with a grain of salt)
Hii!
I tried a month or so ago with raspbian, with little luck. It seems that some dependency that holochain core is using doesn’t support aarch or arm architectures, so I couldn’t get it to compile. It seems that to support it holochain would have to either drop that dependency or included with some feature that enables these architectures. Didn’t do much investigation though, so maybe there is a workaround that I didn’t find. For now I’ve switched to using my holoport 
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Hey @zeemarx_jeremyboom8 @ddd-mtl and I think @bierlingm was also interested,
I got it to compile! Actually I didn’t do anything special, I think the holochain core team just dropped the dependency that was breaking things.
So here you have a docker image that will work in a raspberry pi 4:
https://hub.docker.com/r/guillemcordoba/holochain-arm64/tags?page=1&ordering=last_updated
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Interesting thanks. So it means it could also run on mobile now, no?
Huh interesting, I don’t know. Last I heard the core team had other concerns with mobile, like the os killing holochain because too much background activity. Don’t know if that has advanced though.
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I believe you can install Android on a Rpi 4. So I’d say the next step would be to try holochain on that.
I’ll try to do that once I get my hands on one.
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I’d love to run HC on this for lots of physical process applications
I finally acquired a Pi 4. For now holochain doesn’t seem to compile because of wasmer. Were you on a 64bit OS when it worked for you?
Haven’t tried the docker image yet.
Yes! 64bit OS.
Humm. I got holochain and hc tools to compile but it fails to run. I get cranelift-codegen “Not implemented” panics when trying hc sandbox for example.
Did you manage to have it run and not just compile?
Mmm I recall being able to run, but not 100% sure. I’m quite certain I was able to do it with the docker image though.
I believe it can’t run until holochain upgrades to wasmer 1.0
I just managed to have holochain running on arm64 by changing wasmer’s backend to use singlepass instead of cranelift. I followed this guide: https://kevingzhang.github.io/posts/run-wasm-in-raspberry-pi-4-today/
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Darn. I’m stuck again as the hash I get when doing registerDna() on raspberrypi is different than the one I get on the other platforms, which means I don’t have any networking…
Hey @ddd-mtl
interesting investigations!
On this point… did you compile the DNA on this system? If so, instead just share the DNA built file instead. If you already did it that way, I don’t understand why the hash would be different, because the hashing function is supposed to be deterministic.