EnforcerDon Big Clucker



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SA-MP server for ARM? SA-MP Server for ARM processor?



I would like to know if the SA-MP team have thought about compiling the SA-MP server for ARM Linux anytime in the near future, and if they haven't, I would like to suggest it.



So here's why I ask:

It goes like this - I have a Raspberry Pi minicomputer (which is about the size of my hand), which would make a perfect SA-MP server (it comes complete with Ethernet, and can run various Linux distributions). I also have a server that I want to host, and while I get it up and running I don't want the stress of paying for hosting, hence I had the idea of hosting locally on my Raspberry Pi, which currently is sitting unused. I know that there would have been limitations to hosting the server locally, and I'm aware of them, however the idea of using the Raspberry Pi to host the server seemed too good to miss.



However it turns out that the Pi has an ARM processor, which is incompatible with the SA-MP server currently available (which is compiled for x86 processors), hence my idea for running a super cheap server locally would not work.



I'm sure I'm not the only person who has had similar ideas regarding SA-MP, but has not been able to make them work because of the simple lack of support for their hardware platform of choice.



UPDATE

This is actually a non question. The SA-MP team will not be able to release either a x64 or an ARM version of the SA-MP server, because the pawn scripting language only supports x86 processor architecture. It goes like this - I have a Raspberry Pi minicomputer (which is about the size of my hand), which would make a perfect SA-MP server (it comes complete with Ethernet, and can run various Linux distributions). I also have a server that I want to host, and while I get it up and running I don't want the stress of paying for hosting, hence I had the idea of hosting locally on my Raspberry Pi, which currently is sitting unused. I know that there would have been limitations to hosting the server locally, and I'm aware of them, however the idea of using the Raspberry Pi to host the server seemed too good to miss.However it turns out that the Pi has an ARM processor, which is incompatible with the SA-MP server currently available (which is compiled for x86 processors), hence my idea for running a super cheap server locally would not work.I'm sure I'm not the only person who has had similar ideas regarding SA-MP, but has not been able to make them work because of the simple lack of support for their hardware platform of choice.This is actually a non question. The SA-MP team will not be able to release either a x64 or an ARM version of the SA-MP server, because the pawn scripting language only supports x86 processor architecture. Last edited by EnforcerDon; 14/01/2015 at 09:29 AM .