Godot 3.6 supports arm64 builds (including Librem 5) now

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Godot 3.6 got finally released and it supports exporting arm64 builds for Linux now. That eases development of games and other applications with Godot for the Librem 5 significantly.

All you need to do is using the GLES2 renderer of Godot 3 because GLES3 might not work properly. From my experience performance is pretty solid in case of 2D games.

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I’ve now tested building a game for Android and mobile Linux to compare both platforms.

Android requires manual configuration of permissions, installing the SDK, accepting license terms, setting up a key store, signing the application… and after all those steps, it finally gets installed on an Android device and runs.

With the Librem 5 I only needed to select arm64 as architecture and hit “Export”. No changes required, no additional steps.

Only thing you want to keep in mind is implementing touch controls. The ones from Godot itself only work on Android because Wayland support wasn’t backported to Godot 3.6 and touch input will therefore only be recognized as mouse events. All of the Godot UI widgets work though and if your game supports controls via keyboard, you can actually play via squeekboard (maybe even offer an extra layout).

Either way it’s not difficult to implement some custom buttons to allow touch screen controls. I recommend adding a setting to enable/disable them for a desktop with proper keyboard or gamepad (could also apply to your phone of course).

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Did not read the initial post before. Thanks for your post. My game (Mycelerate) was build on Beta 5 and I will upgrade it to Godot stable 3.6 on next game-version - as soon as I have time to work further. I’m also waiting for GLES3 and will test it as soon as it is implemented in our L5 driver.

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I think once GLES3 is supported, I’ll probably switch to Godot 4 because that already offers Wayland support on Linux. Unfortunately that’s not ported back to Godot 3.

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I’m thinking about switching, too. But I have to recreate lots of code and it’s maybe better to just finish the game in Godot 3. But before I make any decision I will test how performant GLES3 will be compared to GLES2.

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