My main computer bit the dust yesterday (it was considerate of it to choose Black Friday to do it on though) and as a result I’m using a Raspberry Pi 5 as my desktop system for a few days. It’s actually working surprisingly well, so I wondered if I could build Blender on it, amid all the talk about Wayland compositing in its new Bookworm based Pi OS, Vulkan support in Mesa, etc.
It looks however as though there just isn’t enough hardware oomph there, since they just claim the GPU components of the SoC are able to implement OpenGL ES 3.1 which is a far cry from full OpenGL 4.3+ that we need for modern Blender.
So, while I was able to get it to build successfully, it doesn’t get very far:
$ ./blender
EGL Error (0x3009): EGL_BAD_MATCH: Arguments are inconsistent (for example, a valid context requires buffers not supplied by a valid surface).
EGL Error (0x3009): EGL_BAD_MATCH: Arguments are inconsistent (for example, a valid context requires buffers not supplied by a valid surface).
EGL Error (0x3009): EGL_BAD_MATCH: Arguments are inconsistent (for example, a valid context requires buffers not supplied by a valid surface).
EGL Error (0x3009): EGL_BAD_MATCH: Arguments are inconsistent (for example, a valid context requires buffers not supplied by a valid surface).
Warning: No OpenGL vendor detected.
blender: …/src/dispatch_common.c:872: epoxy_get_proc_address: Assertion `0 && “Couldn’t find current GLX or EGL context.\n”’ failed.
Aborted
Oh well
It was a fun experiment.
P.S. I assume blender.chat crashed and is down currently?
Have you tried spoofing the GPU with “export MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=3.3”
I wonder also about adding a (low cost?) external GPU that supports OpenGPL 4.3+,
considering that Rpi5 has PCIe and USB 3.0 I think this could become an option (eventually…)
I had this same thought, wondered if anyone had tried it, and ran across your posted question (late). I think that Pi 5/bookworm support for Vulkan is actually farther along than that for OpenGL. Raspberry Pi Ltd. worked with a company called Igalia to develop the Vulkan drivers for Pi 5. Is their thinking that OpenGL is perhaps a dead-end?
The Blender devs, moving towards Vulkan, have some things to say about that too. Maybe this is a “convergence moment” for Blender running on Pi 5? Seems to me like a pretty cool combination!
For what i now can be but the project was erased by his creator because he didnt feel good about posting the sourse code so delete the gibhub with the apk
link for the post Issues porting Blender to Android tablets - #42 by epai
there some big isues
is made for android (not a big problem but for use a more linux os can be)
only works on adreno gpu, if you launch on a mali gpu is going to be a black screen (my personal teory is becuase way of the termux implemetation but im not a dev so can be anything)
how i say earlyer the project is no longer available but i sill have the apk.
and maybe is a chance for the way how android apk works keeping a good part of the sourse code
pd: the projec is based on the blender alpha 4.0 and if you wana look the apk tell me and i going to post a dropbox or something
pd2electricboogaloo: i not a english native and i verry lazy in this moment to use a trasnlator to fix my write errors
