How to run Racket on the Raspberry Pi 2

2015-08-27 :: IT, Racket

I got a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B to play with. I used Raspbian image as operating system. I was wondering how difficult it is to get Racket running on the Raspberry Pi. I downloaded the Unix source + built packages tarball from Racket’s homepage because I only wanted to compile the core of Racket. After unpacking the tarball I was suprised that the instructions were quite short:

From this directory (where the `configure' file is), run the following
commands:

  mkdir build
  cd build
  ../configure
  make
  make install

Between make and make install I had to wait for about 40 minutes but then everything was fine and I could even use DrRacket on the Raspberry Pi:

DrRacket on Raspberry Pi

Very nice and easy to get Racket running on ARM.

PS: Because the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B has an ARMv7 processor the binary runs on my Jolla smart phone as well.