Running VCV Rack on a Raspberry Pi 5

Hi. I just tried running VCV Rack on a Raspberry Pi 5 and had the following messages when trying to run the binary:

./Rack
[BOX64] Box64 arm64 v0.4.1 07e82e623 with Dynarec built on Feb  7 2026 06:39:11
[BOX64] Dynarec for ARM64, with extension: ASIMD AES CRC32 PMULL ATOMICS SHA1 SHA2
[BOX64] Running on Cortex-A76 with 4 cores, pagesize: 4096
[BOX64] Will use hardware counter measured at 54.0 MHz emulating 3.4 GHz
[BOX64] Didn't detect 48bits of address space, considering it's 39bits
[BOX64] Counted 58 Env var
[BOX64] Library search path: 
[BOX64] Binary search path: ./:bin/:/usr/local/sbin/:/usr/local/bin/:/usr/sbin/:/usr/bin/:/sbin/:/bin/:/usr/local/games/:/usr/games/
[BOX64] Looking for ./Rack
[BOX64] Rename process to "Rack"
[BOX64] Using emulated libRack.so
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) libm.so.6
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) libc.so.6
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) libpthread.so.0
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) libdl.so.2
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) libutil.so.1
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) librt.so.1
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) libbsd.so.0
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) libGL.so.1
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) libX11.so.6
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) libxcb.so.1
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) libXau.so.6
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) libXdmcp.so.6
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) libasound.so.2
[BOX64] Error loading needed lib libjack.so.0
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) libpulse.so.0
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) libpulse-simple.so.0
[BOX64] Error loading one of needed lib
[BOX64] Error initializing needed lib libc.so.6
[BOX64] Error loading one of needed lib
[BOX64] Error: Loading needed libs in elf ./Rack

Does anybody have a solution for running Rack on the Raspberry Pi 5?

Your best bet is to compile it for ARM64 including all of the modules that you want to use (which means no library and no “premium” modules).

Just going by the error there it looks like you don’t have “jack” installed. Maybe do that and try again.

Jack is installed. Is there a specific version I need?