Nightcode not building on Raspberry Pi

[engblom]

JDK: Oracle JDK 1.8.0_65 Distro: Fully upgraded Rasbian Jessie Nightcode version: Latest from github as of today

I have used earlier versions of Nightcode on Raspberry Pi for coding classes last year. I wanted to upgrade to newest version and found that there is no standalone .jar-file any more and that it is not possible to build Nightcode for Raspberry pi.

'boot build' gives the following error:

Compiling 1/2 nightcode.core...
             clojure.lang.ExceptionInfo: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javafx.application.Application, compiling:(nightcode/core.clj:1:1)
    data: {:file "/tmp/boot.user7083437145616479110.clj", :line 19} 
clojure.lang.Compiler$CompilerException: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javafx.application.Application, compiling:(nightcode/core.clj:1:1)
       java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javafx.application.Application
                                     ...    
     clojure.core/the-class/invokeStatic    genclass.clj:  109 
clojure.core/generate-class/invokeStatic    genclass.clj:  132 
     clojure.core/gen-class/invokeStatic    genclass.clj:  635 
                  clojure.core/gen-class    genclass.clj:  507 
                                     ...    
                    clojure.core/load/fn        core.clj: 6008
          clojure.core/load/invokeStatic        core.clj: 6007
                       clojure.core/load        core.clj: 5991
                                     ...    
      clojure.core/load-one/invokeStatic        core.clj: 5812
                 clojure.core/compile/fn        core.clj: 6018
       clojure.core/compile/invokeStatic        core.clj: 6018
                    clojure.core/compile        core.clj: 6010
                 pod$eval64.invokeStatic  NO_SOURCE_FILE    
                       pod$eval64.invoke  NO_SOURCE_FILE    
                                     ...    
          clojure.core/eval/invokeStatic        core.clj: 3187
                       clojure.core/eval        core.clj: 3183
                       boot.pod/eval-in*         pod.clj:  437 
                                     ...    
                       boot.pod/eval-in*         pod.clj:  440 
          boot.task.built-in/fn/fn/fn/fn    built_in.clj:  658 
                     boot.core/run-tasks        core.clj:  938 
                       boot.core/boot/fn        core.clj:  948 
     clojure.core/binding-conveyor-fn/fn        core.clj: 2020

[engblom]

Apparently JavaFX is not included in the Oracle JDK coming with Raspbian.

[NathanSmutz]

You can get the .jar for 2.1.6 (latest as of now) and prior versions of NightCode here: https://github.com/oakes/Nightcode/releases

I imagine the JavaFX problem just complicates building from scratch; but just in case it doesn't like the Pi some other way, the latest pre-JavaFX version of NightCode is 1.3.2. It still has Parinfer which is pretty cool.

[egri-nagy]

Just tried 2.3.7 on Raspberry Pi 3. Now openjfx is simply in the repositories. But trying to start NightCode results in a crash, apparently coming from JavaFX. Anything known about this?