Idiots Guide? To cross compiling from X86 to Pandora

[kingoddball]

Hey!

Been a long time, left Pandora unused for awhile. Used it a lot for movies on my desk at work and my old school games (mega drive/PSX).

But lately it's been in a draw without the love and affection it deserves!

Is anyone able to help me out with a guide (baby steps even) of how to compile from source?

I'd probably like to download source and compile ON the Pandora.
I'm not worried about what program, nothing fancy. I have not done much (anything!) with MAKE.

I have never been able to get a program to compile from source on Pandora, I did try a few things like GUAKE but failed mostly.

Once I can get this done, maybe I'd like to try cross compiling from PC.
I'm just not sure where to start or what I'd need, been a very long time since I've done anything like that.
Been working on 3D Printers, Arduino and SQL.

Thanks in advance and hopefully someone can help walk me through it.
I do understand the basics and also understand that Pandora's repo's are custom, not full Angstrom.

 

[pmprog]

Personally, I'd just recommend getting sebt3's VM, then you "setprj" and build as if you were on a Pandora IIRC (though it's been a while since I cross compiled anything)

 

[kingoddball]

What is??
i don't know what that is, do you have a link?

 

[ptitSeb]

If you want to compile on the Pandora and want a tutorial, I suggest that; http://pandoralive.info/?p=700 (note that the pictures are missing since some migrations on Pandoralive). If you want to cross compile, yeah, what pmprog suggested is your best bet for now.

 

[pmprog]

http://www.gp32x.de/board/index.php?/topic/58490-yactfeau/
 

 

[Hooka]

The only major issue I had with using the old VM is it's too old you can't even update/add any packages if you need to... Mind you, running the toolchain installer on a newer kubuntu install didn't go over very well either, but I just defaulted to compiling on Pandora itself due to the projects I'm working on not being ridiculously large and only taking a few extra minutes to compile on Pandora itself.

 

[pmprog]

Yeah, I found that if I was missing some libraries, it was best to build them myself using the VM so everything was aligned when moving to the Pandora

 

[kingoddball]

Thanks all!
im trying a simple one. 
Nano 2.4.x (current is 2.0.x). 
Tried basic nano, wouldn't install so now I'm running a make on ncurses 6.0 - taking awhile then I'll try build nano again. 

Using:
C/C++ dev tools 0.1.2.00 (from pndstore). 

See how it goes

 

[ptitSeb]

Note that if you want most up-to-date libs and compiler, you should use codeblocks pnd. It's huge (2Go), and include a command line like CDevTools (it's based on CDevTool by the way).

 

[kingoddball]

Thanks!
i believe I have it installed but last time I tried a big GUI opened up?

ill take a look - I know I D/L'ed a 2gb'ish codeblocks. 

Success! 2.0.2 upgraded to 2.4.2!
ill try some other stuff to see how it goes, don't mind filling the NAND, reinstall is quick and easy. 
Thank you all. I want to keep learning about this and cross compiling for when the Pyra is out, too.