Followed the wiki, got all the packages and git cloned powder toy, cd to the powder toy dir all no problems but when i run scons it fails because theres no sconstruct file "scons: *** No SConstruct file found." so i searched through the souce and i cant find one either. Im completely new to scons (and compiling on a pi in general), is there supposed to be a sconstruct file included with the source or am i supposed to write one myself? If i am supposed to write one myself does anyone have some useful info on where to start im just completely lost with this and cant seem to find any forums with a similar issue of missing scontruct file.

https://powdertoy.co.uk/Wiki/W/Compiling_TPT%2B%2B_on_debian/ubuntu.html and multiple other powdertoy wiki pages and threads saying basically the same thing, i just assumed it was how it was supposed to be done. Ill try this guide and see how it goes, cheers

That specifc link was from https://powdertoy.co.uk/Discussions/Thread/View.html?Thread=23039&PageNum=0#Message=306527 and the other guides where from just googling "compiling the powder toy on raspberry pi"

Well i hit a roadblock, meson refuses to find luajit dispite installing any lua packages i could find:

pkg-config --list-all|grep lua
lua5.1-c++ Lua - Lua language engine
lua53-c++ Lua - Lua language engine
lua-5.3-c++ Lua - Lua language engine
lua50 lua50 - The Lua 5.0 programming language
lua53 Lua - Lua language engine
lua51 Lua - Lua language engine
lua5.1 Lua - Lua language engine
lua5.3 Lua - Lua language engine
lua-5.1 Lua - Lua language engine
lua-5.3 Lua - Lua language engine
lua51-c++ Lua - Lua language engine
lualib50 lua50 - The Lua 5.0 programming language addon libraries
lua5.3-c++ Lua - Lua language engine
lua-5.1-c++ Lua - Lua language engine

sudo apt-get install luajit

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

luajit is already the newest version (2.1.0~beta3+dfsg-5.1).

The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:

  rtimucli squeak-vm

Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

meson build-debug

The Meson build system

Version: 0.52.1

Source dir: /home/pi/The-Powder-Toy

Build dir: /home/pi/The-Powder-Toy/build-debug

Build type: native build

Project name: the-powder-toy

Project version: the.cake.is.a.lie

C compiler for the host machine: cc (gcc 8.3.0 "cc (Raspbian 8.3.0-6+rpi1) 8.3.0")

C linker for the host machine: GNU ld.bfd 2.31.1

C++ compiler for the host machine: c++ (gcc 8.3.0 "c++ (Raspbian 8.3.0-6+rpi1) 8.3.0")

C++ linker for the host machine: GNU ld.bfd 2.31.1

Host machine cpu family: arm

Host machine cpu: armv7l

Program python3 found: YES (/usr/bin/python3)

meson.build:35: WARNING: unsupported architecture: arm; you are on your own

Found pkg-config: /usr/bin/pkg-config (0.29)

Found CMake: /usr/bin/cmake (3.16.3)

Run-time dependency luajit found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)

meson.build:110:1: ERROR: Dependency "luajit" not found, tried pkgconfig and cmake

pkgconfig folder contains:

lua50.pc

lualib50.pc

again all this is new to me so i cant tell if im missing something or doing something wrong

neither am i to be honest linux in general is new to me my pc motherboard died the other day so while i wait ive been messing around with the pi, and yeah my bad, i missed the ver number and the dev tag and things also didnt want to work until i ran apt-get update. Its compiling now albeit very slowly, ill let you know how it goes. EDIT: Built fine and runs all good, cheers