As per subject, I’m trying setting things up for my first prototype. I didn’t buy a pi2 board yet.
I wanted to give the emulators a try, but as it seems they require hyper-v, which isn’t an option for Windows 10 Home version.
Is there any other way to run emulators on a W10 Home machine, like on VMWare or something?
Sorry if this has been asked before.
@ NoNickName -
I know nothing about it but I remember seeing this link.
Hope it helps
I am running VMWare on win10 works just fine.
Considering the price of a Pi2, IMO, setting up and dealing with emulators, and the inevitable incompatibilities there, is just not worth it.
If you want to try out programming, just create a Windows 10 UWP app using Visual Studio 2015 Community. You’ll be able to do everything except the device access APIs (GPIO, etc.). I don’t believe those work in the emulator in any case (and if they did, you wouldn’t get any results without hardware).
There are a few things that don’t work on the Pi2 (like popups), but otherwise, it’s all UWP.
Pete
@ willgeorge - Thanks, but hyper-v is not available on windows 10 home. There is no such a feature in the list of available features in windows 10
Ok, I started writing a blank UWP app.
Two issues I ran across and solved:
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error: Could not add all required packages to the project. The following packages failed to install from ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\MicrosoftSDKs\NETCoreSDK’: Microsoft.NETCore.UniversalWindowsPlatform.5.0.0 : Solution is not opened or not saved. Please ensure you have an open and saved solution
This is solved by enabling “Save new projects when created” under Tools > Options > Settings > Projects and Solutions > General.
Cumbersome. -
error : DEP0700: Registration of the app failed. error 0x80070005: Opening file from location: c:\ …\AppxManifest.xml failed with error: Access is denied.
This is solved by giving SYSTEM the full rights on the project folder. Cumbersome too.
This only for the Hello, world!
I hope it gets better…