I can almost build maidsafe rust respositories cleanly on raspberry pi 3, using this script.
The one issue is in rust_sodium. Here is a transcript.
Looks like a casting issue between *const u8 and *const c_char? I don’t know rust very well.
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Yes, the problem is that c_char is i8 on most architectures, but u8 on ARM: rust/raw.rs at 4812cf392f1fa2258033356dd872fbee58a5406e · rust-lang/rust · GitHub
So the cast was “trivial”. This PR should fix it, by allowing trivial casts: fix/build: allow trivial_casts for ARM build by afck · Pull Request #17 · maidsafe/rust_sodium · GitHub
Please let me know whether it works with that.
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I’m running the vault for test 8 on my pi 3. I just installed the ARM package and it worked straight away.
I guess building may suit another purpose besides just running the vault though? Not really an expert in these things 
Works great. Thanks!
I suppose a related question is, will there be Travis CI coverage for arm? It will likely be a popular platform.
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We definitely want to add that at some point, but it’s not trivial as Travis doesn’t support ARM. At the moment we’re all busy working on other issues, unfortunately.
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Ok - for the time being, I’ll report ARM issues in an ad-hoc manner here.
I found one test failure for self_encryptor::tests::large_100mb_file.
running 1 test
test self_encryptor::tests::large_100mb_file … FAILED
thread 'self_encryptor::tests::large_100mb_file' panicked at 'index out of bounds: the len is 0 but the index is 0', /buildslave/rust-buildbot/slave/stable-dist-rustc-cross-host-linux/build/src/libcollections/vec.rs:1176
(backtrace in linked gist)
Once fix/self_encryptor: don't ignore create_mapping error by afck · Pull Request #195 · maidsafe/self_encryption · GitHub is merged, the failure should print a bit more information. I suspect that there wasn’t enough free RAM to create the 100 MB memory map.
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