Compiling Jivelite on Raspbian

Jivelite is a visualization application.

Install the git and luajit development packages.

apt install git libluajit-5.1-dev

Install additional dependencies

apt install git libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-gfx1.2-dev libexpat1-dev

Clone the repository

git clone git@github.com:ralph-irving/jivelite.git

cd jivelite

Update the path to the luajit header files.

find . -type f -iname '*' -exec sed -i 's/include\/luajit-2.0/include\/luajit-2.1/' "{}" +;

Update some outdated definitions in the source.

find . -type f -iname '*' -exec sed -i 's/luaL_reg /luaL_Reg /' "{}" +;

In lib-src/lua-cjson-2.1.0/lua_cjson.c, change

static void luaL_setfuncs (lua_State *l, const luaL_Reg *reg, int nup)

to

void luaL_setfuncs (lua_State *l, const luaL_Reg *reg, int nup)

Build it.

make PREFIX=/usr

You should have a binary in

bin/jivelite

Jivelite uses SDL which disables external screensavers by default. To bypass this behavior, create shell script wrapper jivelite.sh containing the following.

#!/bin/sh

export SDL_VIDEO_ALLOW_SCREENSAVER=1
/home/pi/jivelite/bin/jivelite