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 # tryfle A look at flet for building cross platform apps
 
+My team lead got all exited about this thing called flet for whipping out python data at a glance (using it as a web app) I had never heard of it but I have spent years developing multiplatform gui applications using wxpython so I thought I would give it a try.
+
+Most of the stuff that follows is based on the default app that you get when you install flet and 'flet create' an app. it is a box with a number and a button that increments it.
+
 ## Flet on macos (tahoe)
 
 Installing and trying flet on macos was relatively painless.
@@ -105,15 +109,151 @@ But it looks and feels more like a mac app.
 
 ### cross compiling on the mac (FAIL)
 
-YOU ARE HERE.
+I have a few raspberry pi's which have displays and which I plan to embed in various things throwing up a nice display quickly is very appealing. So my first thought was to cross compile from the mac to linux. (I knew this was a long shot)
+
+```sh
+feurig@pj tryfle % flet build linux --arch=aarch64
+[21:55:36]                Build Platform Matrix
+           ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
+           ┃ Command                  ┃       Platform        ┃
+           ┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
+           │ flet build windows       │        Windows        │
+           ├──────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
+           │ flet build macos         │         macOS         │
+           ├──────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
+           │ flet build linux         │         Linux         │
+           ├──────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
+           │ flet build web           │ macOS, Windows, Linux │
+           ├──────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
+           │ flet build apk           │ macOS, Windows, Linux │
+           ├──────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
+           │ flet build aab           │ macOS, Windows, Linux │
+           ├──────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
+           │ flet build ipa           │         macOS         │
+           ├──────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
+           │ flet build ios-simulator │         macOS         │
+           └──────────────────────────┴───────────────────────┘
+╭───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
+│ You can't build                                                                       │
+╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
+```
 
 ### cross compiling on debian (FAIL)
 
-AND HERE
+Ok so I really don't want to build on an underpowered little device when I have a relatively beefy linux box in the basement. 
+
+```sh
+feurig@nick:~/Projects/tryfle$ PATH=$PATH:/tank/home/feurig/flutter/3.41.4/bin flet build linux --arch=aarch64
+[21:46:37] Created app shell ✅
+[21:46:38] Packaged Python app ✅
+[21:46:44] Customized app icons ✅
+[21:46:47] Generated app icons ✅
+[21:46:55] Resolving dependencies...
+...blah blah blah
+           Building Linux application...
+
+           ERROR: Target dart_build failed: Error: Failed to find any of  in
+           LocalDirectory: '/usr/lib/llvm-19/bin'
+           Build process failed
+... more blah blah ... ╭───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
+│ Error building Flet app - see the log of failed command above.                        │
+╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
+feurig@nick:~/Projects/tryfle$ ls -lsa /usr/lib/llvm-19/
+total 48
+ 4 drwxr-xr-x  8 root root  4096 Apr 27 14:58 .
+ 4 drwxr-xr-x 73 root root  4096 Apr 30 16:40 ..
+ 4 drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Apr 27 14:57 bin
+ 4 drwxr-xr-x  4 root root  4096 Apr 27 14:58 build
+ 0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    14 Jun 14  2025 cmake -> lib/cmake/llvm
+ 4 drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Apr 27 14:58 include
+20 drwxr-xr-x  6 root root 20480 Apr 27 14:58 lib
+ 4 drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Apr 27 14:49 libexec
+ 4 drwxr-xr-x  8 root root  4096 Apr 27 14:58 share
+```
+
+flutter bitches about something that is clearly there.
+
+### compiling on debian (FAIL)
+
+Lets see if it even compiles natively
+
+```sh
+feurig@nick:~/Projects/tryfle$ PATH=$PATH:/tank/home/feurig/flutter/3.41.4/bin flet build linux
+[20:51:26] Packaged Python app ✅
+[20:51:33] Building Linux application...
+
+           ERROR: Target dart_build failed: Error: Failed to find any of  in
+           LocalDirectory: '/usr/lib/llvm-19/bin'
+           Build process failed
+... blah blah blah ...
+╭───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
+│ Error building Flet app - see the log of failed command above.                        │
+╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
+```
+
+NOPE.
+
+### Running on debian
+
+Ok so it wont compile will it run?
 
-### cross compiling on rasberian (partial FAIL)
+#### running on x (FAIL)
 
-AND HERE
+The debian machine is a server so we ssh in and X-forward.
+
+![really dark mode](docs/images/debianxrun.jpg)
+
+#### running on x using 'flet run --web' and google chrome
+
+This more or less works so you can still run it on debian
+
+![chrome](docs/images/debianrunxweb.jpg)
+
+#### JUST DONT PUSH THE INSTALL BUTTON!
+
+Pushing the install button puts the app in a really nice window where none of the window controls work except for full screan which blacks out most of the screen and wont go back. Maybe it works on a desktop but YUK!!!
+
+![wtf](docs/images/whatthefuck.jpg)
+
+### Running on raspberry pi
+
+Since running on the raspberri pi is good enough for our use case we will start there.
+
+![long narrow](docs/images/raspirun.jpg)
+
+That works!
+
+### compiling on rasberry pi (FAIL)
+
+In a rasberry pi 5 flet install an intel binary. That is gobsmacking stupid.
+
+```sh
+feurig@five:~/Projects/tryfle $ flet build linux --arch=aarch64
+[21:27:00] 1 Failed to validate Flutter version.
+           Flutter SDK not found or invalid version installed.
+(     ●) Initializing linux build...
+Flutter SDK 3.41.4 is required. It will be installed now. Proceed?   [y/n] (y): y
+[21:27:03]
+           /home/feurig/flutter/3.41.4/bin/internal/shared.sh: line 273:
+           /home/feurig/flutter/3.41.4/bin/cache/dart-sdk/bin/dart: cannot execute binary
+           file: Exec format error
+           /home/feurig/flutter/3.41.4/bin/internal/shared.sh: line 273:
+           /home/feurig/flutter/3.41.4/bin/cache/dart-sdk/bin/dart: Success
+
+           /home/feurig/flutter/3.41.4/bin/internal/shared.sh: line 273:
+           /home/feurig/flutter/3.41.4/bin/cache/dart-sdk/bin/dart: cannot execute binary
+           file: Exec format error
+           /home/feurig/flutter/3.41.4/bin/internal/shared.sh: line 273:
+           /home/feurig/flutter/3.41.4/bin/cache/dart-sdk/bin/dart: Success
+
+╭───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
+│ Error building Flet app - see the log of failed command above.                        │
+╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
+feurig@five:~/Projects/tryfle $ file /home/feurig/flutter/3.41.4/bin/cache/dart-sdk/bin/dart
+/home/feurig/flutter/3.41.4/bin/cache/dart-sdk/bin/dart: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, BuildID[sha1]=a6c2875adfaa96a24e720daaf5261c03f2e7d05f, stripped
+feurig@five:~/Projects/tryfle $
+```
+So. Mixed bag so far.
 
 ## References
 
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