Adding the helix editor to crossmix

[italomaia]

Helix is a powerful and easy to use editor that can be used from within the trimui device to either do some quick hacking or develop games directly inside the device.

As crossmix seems to provide the binaries it depends on directly, I just copied the latest version of Helix for ARM (helix-25.01.1-aarch64-linux) inside an System/opt/ folder and added a script that calls it inside System/bin.

Do note:

• The solution could be cleaner using symlinks, but FAT32 does not support those.
• There are many grammers available by default under helix that might not be that useful and, if removed, could save a lot of space
• This could probably become much easier to maintain if the editor was installed from the release url, directly from the repo; I did not do it because it is unclear if that is a desired behavior

[qinx0]

FYI: I just tried this (with all files in their appropriate locations) and i was only able to run helix without ./hx by moving System/bin/hx to /usr/bin/hx

[qinx0]

without any changes to your commit i can run it only by "cd'ing" into System/bin and running ./hx

[italomaia]

@qinx0 yes, I'm not adding Helix to the user's path. Try running: PATH="/mnt/SDCARD/System/bin:$PATH"; hx
Does it work for you?

Consider adding

export PATH=/mnt/SDCARD/System/bin:$PATH

to your /root/.profile to have access to all the available programs during interactive sessions.

[qinx0]

@qinx0 yes, I'm not adding Helix to the user's path. Try running: PATH="/mnt/SDCARD/System/bin:$PATH"; hx Does it work for you?

Consider adding

export PATH=/mnt/SDCARD/System/bin:$PATH

to your /root/.profile to have access to all the available programs during interactive sessions.

Ill try this when I'm home

[italomaia]

@qinx0 updates?

[qinx0]

@qinx0 updates?

Yes (sorry), /root/.profile doesn't exist for me and I'm only able to create it

[qinx0]

That wasn't really an update,
I added it to /root/.profile and and it doesn't work for running other programs in bin from another directory

[cizia64]

This editor looks really powerful!
That said, it’s a bit outside the main scope of CrossMix, the size and number of files are just too large (thousands of files and over 200 MB), which would significantly slow down installation for something that most users probably won’t use.

I’m planning to add a store in CrossMix that will support external sources (I already have an idea in mind and have started some tests). I’ll keep this PR open until that store feature is available. Once it’s ready, we’ll be able to package this editor as an external add-on in the store 👍🏻