Linux build for the Bambu Lab Studio

SR-G · November 1, 2022, 7:45pm

Right now, Bambu Lab Studio is only available for Windows and macOS.

However, the underlying software is the Prusa Slicer, which is already compatible with Linux.
Additionnaly, some users have been able to - somehow - generate some Linux builds (see this github issue : https://github.com/bambulab/BambuStudio/issues/12)

So just to give some visibility on this topic : it would really be great to be able to use Bambu Lab Studio under Linux. Maybe with some “AppImage”, or whatever (packages per linux distribution, or only a few of the major ones, …).

PowerChaos · November 1, 2022, 10:47pm

if you run debian based os then you can run a script to install it
so ubuntu should work

i tried it on Archlinux and it partial works with “bottles” ( kinda like whine/proton ) by executing the windows exe file
but it got his own problems as some mayor dependency’s are just missing in linux that windows is using ( wmi )

just keep in mind , it is not that there is a install script that there is support for linux, if it works it would be great , else you can run Wine ( Wine Is No Emulator ) to emulate windows or try the native linux version at own risk.

github.com

bambulab/BambuStudio/blob/master/BuildLinux.sh

#!/bin/bash
set -e # exit on first error

export ROOT=`pwd`
export NCORES=`nproc --all`
export CMAKE_BUILD_PARALLEL_LEVEL=${NCORES}
FOUND_GTK2=$(dpkg -l libgtk* | grep gtk2)
FOUND_GTK3=$(dpkg -l libgtk* | grep gtk-3)

function check_available_memory_and_disk() {
    FREE_MEM_GB=$(free -g -t | grep 'Mem:' | rev | cut -d" " -f1 | rev)
    MIN_MEM_GB=10

    FREE_DISK_KB=$(df -k . | tail -1 | awk '{print $4}')
    MIN_DISK_KB=$((10 * 1024 * 1024))

    if [ ${FREE_MEM_GB} -le ${MIN_MEM_GB} ]; then
        echo -e "\nERROR: Bambu Studio Builder requires at least ${MIN_MEM_GB}G of 'available' mem (systen has only ${FREE_MEM_GB}G available)"
        echo && free -h && echo
        exit 2

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SR-G · November 1, 2022, 11:03pm

Well, per the fact that the underlying software (PrusaSlicer) is already running on linux, i would say that it would be a shame to use WINE and the windows binary. Probably not worth investigating, to be honest.

I’m running archlinux and the currently in place AUR package does not work for me (some patches not being correctly applied during build) (of course this is un-official re-packaging, and just a first try - maybe it will improve in the future).

The point was also to point that an officialy published AppImage (or something else) would probably be relevant.

SirWill · November 2, 2022, 8:57pm

Bambu Lab is currently focused on making Bambu Studio better on our supported Windows and Mac Versions. We are doing what we can to support Linux with limited resources for this. We have made it so you can use the source files to compile and run your own Linux version. Several users are doing this. If users wanted to host their own ‘releases’ for Linux that would be fine. But at this time we have no ETA as to when we will be providing any Linux app packages.

SevyP · November 20, 2022, 2:57pm

Hi,

Same for me here with a build failure on patch.
OS: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS x86_64 up to date.
Git cloned sources.
I ran a sudo ./BuildLinux.sh -u
(BTW m4 was missing, installed by myself)
then
./BuildLinux.sh -sdi

I keep fighting getting it to build coz I want to be sure to get a slicer running under Linux before to pre-order a X1 Carbon Combo.

I wouldn’t like to give up this project.

Any help appreciated.

TIA,

Sevy.

Myf · November 20, 2022, 3:39pm

I’m in almost the same situation !

Indeed I run ./BuildLinux.sh -u

So I MUST open an account on github,
and do “apt-get install gh” to launch github.

I haven’t finished the build test yet because there was only 1 GB free on my laptop hard drive. Now I run a backup…

SR-G · November 20, 2022, 4:16pm

Per the informations in the github, it seems a bit easier to generate the AppImage with the “docker” procedure (allowing to have a reproductible build environment, whatever the host OS is).

However i still have segmentation fault when launching the AppImage on my side.
Plus not everything will be working anyway (like the video stream from the camera).

SevyP · November 20, 2022, 4:45pm

Thanks for the tip docker.
I’ve installed an Ubuntu 22.04 LTS VM to build on a clean and recent environment.

I’m a bit concerned we need to apply patches in a build process on a cloned git branch.
The patches should be applied in the git repo by the dev team, imho (?)

Edit: the patches applied to external dependencies/libs.

SR-G · November 20, 2022, 5:17pm

Regarding the docker tip you don’t have to install anything by yourself : there is a docker image provided that allows to easily build the appimage (as said, in a reproductible environment).

It is described in the GITHUB issue #12 of the bambu studio project.

Basically you only have to :

Checkout the project (git clone https://github.com/bambulab/BambuStudio)
Launch this command (on my side with docker, the github issue is using podman, but it’s exactly the same) + to be launched in the sub folder in which the “ContainerFile” is)

rm -rf build; docker build . -t bambu-studio  && docker run --rm bambu-studio /bin/bash -c 'tar -c $(find build | grep ubu64.AppImage | head -1)' | tar -xv

(beware, as a small server, it can be quite CPU intensive / quite long)

in the end i still have some Segmentation Fault when running the AppImage (but it’s working fine for others)
i don’t know which patches you are speaking about (code batches are supposedely inside the github code (take proper tag, if you want to build an older version - at this time, the code is updated with the latest modifications = 1.3.0.25)

SevyP · November 20, 2022, 6:28pm

Thank you for your information, I will give a try to the docker env and give you a feedback! I’m a noob with docker but it is a good reason to learn…
deps and what I call libs: there is a deps directory under the BambuStudio root dir that contains dependencies.
It is the build of this part that fails when trying to apply patches.
In the ~/BambuStudio/deps/build/CMakeFiles/dep_wxWidgets.dir/build.make file, the line #122, the patch is applied with the git command. The build fails here:

@$(CMAKE_COMMAND) -E cmake_echo_color --switch=$(COLOR) --blue --bold --progress-dir=/home/sevy/sources/BambuStudio/deps/build/CMakeFiles --progress-num=$(CMAKE_PROGRESS_7) "Performing patch step for 'dep_wxWidgets'"
cd /home/sevy/sources/BambuStudio/deps/build/dep_wxWidgets-prefix/src/dep_wxWidgets && /usr/bin/git apply --verbose --ignore-space-change --whitespace=fix /home/sevy/sources/BambuStudio/deps/wxWidgets/0001-wxWidget-fix.patch

It may be caused by this bug described there: patch - `git apply --ignore-whitespace` is broken - Stack Overflow

Applying the patch with the patch -p1 <patch file command allows the build to complete.

I use the PruSlicer build doc for Linux for my tests, mainly the “2. Building dependencies” section

github.com

prusa3d/PrusaSlicer/blob/master/doc/How to build - Linux et al.md


# Building PrusaSlicer on UNIX/Linux

Please understand that PrusaSlicer team cannot support compilation on all possible Linux distros. Namely, we cannot help troubleshoot OpenGL driver issues or dependency issues if compiled against distro provided libraries. **We can only support PrusaSlicer statically linked against the dependencies compiled with the `deps` scripts**, the same way we compile PrusaSlicer for our [binary builds](https://github.com/prusa3d/PrusaSlicer/releases).

If you have some reason to link dynamically to your system libraries, you are free to do so, but we can not and will not troubleshoot any issues you possibly run into.

Instead of compiling PrusaSlicer from source code, one may also consider to install PrusaSlicer [pre-compiled by contributors](https://github.com/prusa3d/PrusaSlicer/wiki/PrusaSlicer-on-Linux---binary-distributions).

## Step by step guide

This guide describes building PrusaSlicer statically against dependencies pulled by our `deps` script. Running all the listed commands in order should result in successful build.

#### 0. Prerequisities

You need at least 8GB of RAM on your system. Linking on a 4GB RAM system will likely fail and you may need to limit the number of compiler processes with the '-j xxx' make or ninja parameter, where 'xxx' is the number of compiler processes launched if running on low RAM multi core system, for example on Raspberry PI.

GNU build tools, CMake, git and other libraries have to be installed on the build machine.
Unless that's already the case, install them as usual from your distribution packages.
E.g. on Ubuntu 20.10, run

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It is a bit weird, I have to admit
But I think I’ve found what is going wrong with the patch problem we encounter.

About the BambuStudio code, I’ve cloned the default release available connecting to github web repo, click on the green button and copy past the url to the Ubuntu 22.04 CLI. I don’t know the release #.

SR-G · November 20, 2022, 6:39pm

Again : when using the docker image, you don’t have to care about all this (extra dependencies), as this is already handled inside the docker image itself.

SevyP · November 21, 2022, 11:15am

Hello,

I built an appimage with Docker, thanks!

Segfault here, too.
It seems to be in StaticPrintConfigs.cpp :
[2022-11-21 10:34:14.457146] [0x00007fffed493980] [trace] Initializing StaticPrintConfigs

Maybe a config is missing, but it shouldn’t core dump though.

SR-G · November 21, 2022, 11:46am

Yes, same here indeed - however, it may be on your side an issue regarding the extra fonts that are needed, check the latest comments in the GITHUB #12 issue https://github.com/bambulab/BambuStudio/issues/12

(i DO have these fonts on my side (installed at OS level through archlinux AUR package AUR (en) - harmonyos-sans-git), so i think my problem is a different one (happening after the login in my Bambu Lab account is done inside the app))

SevyP · November 22, 2022, 10:51am

Still crashing with the fonts.
I will follow the github issues, thanks for your tips and URLs!

Myf · December 22, 2022, 1:53pm

Hello,

The GitHub forum for BambuStudio linux port is very active.
https://github.com/bambulab/BambuStudio/issues/12

There is now a first AppImage beta version here :
https://github.com/bambulab/BambuStudio/issues/12#issuecomment-1361282577

So I’ll buy the X1Carbon a next month…

Have a nice day !

F. from France

raupulus · November 8, 2023, 1:38pm

Waiting if it has good Linux support to buy

Myzhar · November 8, 2023, 2:18pm

I use it daily under Ubuntu 22.04 and I have no problems

psychoelf · November 8, 2023, 3:23pm

Used daily here too. The app image just needs to be set to executable and it works flawlessly so far. Ubuntu 22.04 as well and probably on 23.10 in a day or two.

psychoelf · November 8, 2023, 3:32pm

For what it’s worth, I have a modded Ender 3 (V1) and purchased a Ender 5 S1, hoping for wonderful things. It printed decent, until I went to larger prints and found out the bed leveling is borked in the firmware and even manual leveling kept having lift off. Sent it back and bought a P1S. Wow. It is indeed amazing. No failed prints yet.

raupulus · November 8, 2023, 4:55pm

Thanks for answering! @Myzhar and @psychoelf
I’m going to try Debian Testing and Fedora if it at least runs the application well.
I honestly really like the reputation this brand has and how well people have spoken to me about it. On my work and personal computers everything is Linux (some Macs too) and I couldn’t find a download link from the web for that system