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I'd be very interested in testing for GP32Linux, even though I'm a complete newbie when it comes to Linux. I have built a chatboard, and a serial link cable so I can test some stuff for anyone, just post it here.
(Binaries please, like I said, I suck with Linux ;))
 
I already used linux a little (but Im not able to compile a kernel or things like that)
I have a chatboard and Im looking for making a serial cable...(where can I find docs about making that plz?)
I would been pleased to test GP32linux....just give us binaries...:)

see you :lol:

BTW : a stupid question : I heard about a dos box running under linux...could that be used with gp32linux...?
I dont think it is possible but maybe...(please dont flamme me...this is just a stupid idea)

PS : could you send cmatrix please?
 
great, things are evolving fast!

to tell the path to look for libraires, do:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/your/path

About directfb, I thing it would be even better to cross compile XDirectfb, so we could have a real X server instead of juste GTK apps...

I will try it when I have time, directfb is already cross compiled but there are plenty of files needed, so I need a loop device.

Ingeras, we can already mount /usr, /lib and so on using
mount /mnt/lib /lib --bind, but the problem is that symbolic links cannot be written on the SMC, because the filesystem in VFAT. There can be problems with long filenames and permissions too, because we can't upload them with gplink (but we can with gpdrive)

I will try to recompile a kernel today, I keep you updated.

And I will put my binaries somewhere, but I'm waiting for toholl to provide sound support...

EDIT: Finally, here are my binaries:
get http://cyberic.free.fr/start and http://cyberic.free.fr/initrd, put them in /gpmm/linux, and launch linux!

The ramdisk contains shared libjpeg, libz, libncurses, and termcap files needed for linux-type terminals... and cmatrix!
Tell me what you think about it.
 
I will try the thingy with the framebuffer in a seccy, but cMatrix works like a charm! It's probably too hard yet 'n stuff, but TinyX with for example Matchbox would be really cool! I have a TTL level mouse, so a pointing device shouldn't be too much of a problem. Also matchbox supports TinyX' ability to rotate the screen, makes the GP32 easier to handle. (In some cases, not in most cases, where it's easier to have a 240x320 screen then a 320x240)
 
@cyberic
to tell the path to look for libraires, do:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/your/path
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doesnt work, the .configure look for gettext and dont find it :(
checking for libintl.h... yes
checking for dgettext in libc... yes
checking for bind_textdomain_codeset... yes
checking for msgfmt... no
configure: error:
*** You must have either have gettext support in your C library, or use the
*** GNU gettext library. (http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/gettext.html
in fact it override it , and looks where it wants
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i am busy unit 20 june, if someone can go on with the test
once we got glib compiled , we can compile gtk support for directfb
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now for the good news
ipaq is also arm based
i sent my fbtrue test picture above to him, and here is the result

100_0594.JPG


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and he send me a hello word from his ipaq and it runs on gp :)

so we can try to use the applications from familiar linux for ipaq
http://ipkgfind.handhelds.org/result.phtml...wsing=1&format=

they have small kdrive xfree server [ 700kb] with directfb support
we can extract the binaries from the pacakges ipkg , in fact
it s debian packages
use dpkg-deb -X , to extract
[ there is a rpm of dpkg for Mandrake if you are not on Debian ]
and try to use them on gp32 !!!
if someone have some time ...
i ve started to collect the packages , but dont have the time to test
[ but i want to , so much... :( ]

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for the dos thing on linux
you are talking about http://www.dosemu.org/
for that i dont know , have a look , there is x386 emu thing but dont know
if it works
 
It's wonderful, this means that we have binary compatibility between familiar linux for ipaq and gp32linux, that mean a bunch of applications are already compiled!

ingeras, about your error: it seems that the configure script cannot find the 'msgfmt' binary, so I think you have to ajust your PATH.
 
cyberic
can you put on your site
fbi too please ?
does fbgs works ? can you read pdf ?

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msgfmt is part of gettext
but how the hell to tell .configure where msgfmt is ???
adding the path to msgfmt in $PATH
seems to work [ but ugly]
but then it s the same problem
as with earlier glib :
the well known error
configure: error: cannot run test program while cross compiling
:(
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