Tidus posted on Jul 16 2004 at 08:47 PM said:
Hello Ingeras
how to compile something from your opie GP32 Linux distrib (I mean ON the GP32 itself - hummmm but I admit I don't even success to find a way to get a shell on this :-/ ) ??? ;p
thanks
ps: my level is ULTRA BEGINNER ;p
we are working on several different gui, to see what s best
that s opie
and
kdrive
nano-x
with fltk, gtk , ...
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right now
kdrive [ alias xfbdev] is used for the flashplayer, because it gives best colors
and good speed
nano-x seems faster, is quite experimental, we can have light [ few memory usage ] ,fast applications
but right now the colors are not 100% accurate
the applications for both are done using fltk or gtk, fltk is easier and lighter
but gtk has more applications
i dont have time to work on it now, but there seems to be a fast browser for nano-x
opie work, but is very slow, the vendor say it s light, but it s not true !!!
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right now we have to work on input problems
opie: mouse work, chatboard : bad key mapping
kdrive: mouse dont work well, cyberic told me chatboard works with his kdrive [ is use ipaq kdrive right now ]
nano-x : mouse work, chatboard : dont know ..
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you want to compile on the gp32 itself ? right now, no way
toholl has to work on write support for smc [ but i thinks he s busy with the sound driver right now ( wich works but has some glitches) ]
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i assume you have some c/c++ knowledge if you want to compile something
or do you just want to try some applications without knowing c/c++ ???
the best thing is to compile on linux
but you can compile on windows with cygwin too , see above sample [ but it seems there are some problems to cross compile some applications

, have to work on it]
i just found a project to compress our programs to take less memory , have to test someday
[ it s upx for arm !!! for those who know]
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so i think the best thing is to get a linux distribution first
if you are knew, try maybe knoppix , it s a bootable cd , you dont have to install it
if enough people are interested , we could try to make some tutorial
install/use linux for cross compiling applications for gp32
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some links
fltk applications
http://www.fltk.org/links.php?L+P6
a ftlk tutorial for windows, with videos , step by step !!!
http://www3.telus.net/public/robark/#flashvideo
[ so you can make your applications and test, and then if you dont succeed, you can send me the source and i compile it for gp32 ]