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Post, News and Tutorials about LVGL embedded GUI library

LittlevGL's blog

Writing a blog post about your experiences

Have you ported LittlevGL to a new platform? Have you created a fancy GUI? Do you know a great trick? You can share your knowledge on LittlevGL's blog! It's super easy to add your own post:

• Fork and clone the blog repository
• Add your post in Markdown to the _posts folder.
• Store the images and other resources in a dedicated folder in assets
• Create a Pull Request

Installing and Running Jekyll

The blog uses Jekyll to convert the .md files to a webpage. You can easily run Jekyll offline to check your post before creating the Pull request.
A specific version of Bundle is needed for running Jekyll (1.12).

Here is a step-by-step guide for installing Ruby and Jekyll, building and serving the blog.

Please run these commands under blog directory.

Installing Ruby

sudo apt-get install ruby-full build-essential zlib1g-dev
echo '# Install Ruby Gems to ~/gems' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'export GEM_HOME="$HOME/gems"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/gems/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc

Installing Jekyll

gem install jekyll bundler

Installing Blog's version of Bundler

gem install bundler -v 1.12
bundle _1.12_ install

Building and Serving the blog

bundle exec jekyll build
bundle exec jekyll serve