There was already a tutorial but it is a little old.
For me worked:
When you create a new project use a folder under your linux home and not under virtual c:
The only issue I had is that for the first times B4j was saying me "INI file not found" but that problem disappeared after some rebooting of the B4J. I don't know why. I think that with a very little effort B4j and its brothers would be fully Linux compliant.
At the moment (few tests) it appears everything working GOOD, also the designer.
Running B4A and B4J under Linux with wine - fully functional
I have just managed to install B4A and make it run (including B4ASdkManager) on my Xubuntu 18.04 and, since I have lost two days and one night putting things together, I thought it will be a good idea to share it with this great community :) Will assume that we have a partition for virtual...
www.b4x.com
B4X:
- Install WineTricks
- Create a 32 bit profile
- Install .NET 4.52
- Install B4J
- On an windows system download and install jdk-8u271-windows-i586.
- Copy Java folder resulting from installation under a Linux folder (user accessible)
- Open B4j and configure paths pointing the Java folder created above
- Change MaxRamForDex field in the INI file (under %AppData%\Anywhere Software\B4J), put to 1024
- You are ready
When you create a new project use a folder under your linux home and not under virtual c:
The only issue I had is that for the first times B4j was saying me "INI file not found" but that problem disappeared after some rebooting of the B4J. I don't know why. I think that with a very little effort B4j and its brothers would be fully Linux compliant.
At the moment (few tests) it appears everything working GOOD, also the designer.