panda3D on beagleboard

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Hi guys,

I'm trying to run the panda3D package to run some opengl applications.

My beagleboard is Rev. B5 running the ubuntu9.04 with kernel 2.6.29 as
guided in [1]
Of course, I installed the SGX driver according to the instruction in
[2] and managed its demos running successfully.

- When I brought the source package to the board and ran the
makefile(tried native compiling), the compilation stopped complaining
that it does not have 'bison'. So, I installed it.

- When I tried it again, the compilation stopped with 'out of memory' error.

1) I wonder if there is anybody tried this or even was successful.
2) I'm thinking of getting a Rev. C board which has 128MB more RAM
thank my Rev. B5 and try this again. Do you think this is worth to
try? Or is there any other think I might try with my current board?
3) If panda3D is not a proper solution to run on the beagleboard, is
there any suggestion?

Thank you for your time. :slight_smile:

Regards,

ILKYOUNG.

[1] http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu
[2] http://code.google.com/p/beagleboard/wiki/HowtoUseSGXunderAngstrom

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Hi ILKYOUNG,

Do you currently have a swap partition, it definitely won't be as fast
as the 256 memory version, but it might be enough to get it built.

(quick google guide, untested)
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-add-a-swap-file-howto/

Regards,

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Hello, Robert,

Thank you for your comment. :slight_smile: You always are my first aid. :slight_smile:

No, I don’t have a swap partition now. First time I played with mojo project, I set up a swap. However, I decided not to use it because it would a) slow down the execution speed, b) the SD would wear out faster.
I even use ext2 filesystem for the rootfs instead of ext3. You probably remember that there once was a thread talking about the issue before in this mailing list.

I would try your advice… but I’m afraid it would take for eveeeeer to compile the package… :frowning:

Regards,

ILKYOUNG

2009/5/15 Robert Nelson <robertcnelson@gmail.com>

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ILKYOUNG KWOUN wrote:

- When I tried it again, the compilation stopped with 'out of memory' error.

Try to run gcc with
--param ggc-min-expand=0 --param ggc-min-heapsize=16384

This worked fine for me with 128MB of RAM.