Native Development On The Gp2x

[Pixman]

Hello folks,

One of my biggest wishes (and at the moment only thing that looks like fun to me on the GP2X) was to develop natively on the GP2X "on the road" (or: on the rails).

I own a few of those Ericsson Chatboards and there is a way to connect them to the GP2X aswell. Do they already work, means, is there a driver out there? Or any software supporting it?

AFAIR there is a GCC port on the GP2X. At least it should crosscompile to the ARM-architecture.

So a terminal emulator, Keyboard & some compiler-configuration / environment-variables set-up is all I'd need, right?

I could bear with the chatboards to code small things. Won't matter.

Anyone of you already doing this?
Suggestions?

Greets,
Pix

 

[Epicenter]

I don't know anything about the keyboard you have, but if it connects by USB or Serial it can be adapted to the GP2x, it's really just a tiny ARM9 computer. You'd need to port a driver, however, and probably recompile your kernel to install it. And you'd need to build a custom cable to match the EXT port to connect it. As for native development, there is an ARM9 toolchain you can find in the development forum, probably 1st or 2nd page right now, as I just saw it this week. That'll allow you to compile and link your own programs on the '2x itself.