Raspberry Pi?

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  1. Radio

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    Compiling/Installing
    https://github.com/ptitSeb/box64/blob/main/docs/COMPILE.md

    Box64 0.3.0: x86_64 emulator for Linux supports AVX and AVX2
    Box64 emulates x64_64 CPUs in non-x86 Linux versions. The new version 0.3.0 supports the vector instruction set extensions AVX and AVX2.

    Box64 - Linux Userspace x86_64 Emulator with a twist, targeted at ARM64, RV64 and LoongArch Linux devices
    https://github.com/ptitSeb/box64
     
  2. Dalmation

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    Raspberry Pi uses ARM CPUs.

    box86 is for emulating x86 CPUs on ARM CPUs.
    box64 is for emulating x64 CPUs on ARM CPUs.

    Raspberry Pis aren't crazy fast, emulating x86/x64 on a Pi usually isn't a hot idea for realtime audio.

    Linux packages say what they're useable on in their file name (dingdong-linux-aarch64-etc.etc vs dingdong-linux-x64-etc.etc). You can't take a x86/x64 package and run it on a Pi (aarch64) without many extra steps - which slow down the execution of the software by considerable amounts.

    If a company only offers Linux x64 packages and no Linux aarch64 packages for your plugin, you're out of luck and need to look elsewhere (or shoot them a mail and ask if they could provide aarch64 binaries).

    If a plugin is available in source form, there's a good chance it can be compiled (by you) to run natively on your aarch64 Pi. If the software uses x86/x64 machine instructions, you will need to figure out how to translate those into aarch64 instructions; either by rewriting that part of the code or by integrating a shim that does (part of) the work for you (sse2neon for example). Neither approach is trivial.
     
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