Scratchbox

[Zeno Arrow]

Hi all,

Wasn't following the boards as closely for a few months, so don't know if this has already been brought up, but it seems like Scratchbox would be a perfect platform for developing Pandora apps on a PC, you can read about it here:
http://www.scratchbox.org/

I only know about it because I have an N900 (which runs on an OMAP3 too, not that this matters in this case), it's being used as a dev platform in the Maemo community, other communities too I imagine. The main hosted OS being used is Debian, which Ångström Linux is based on AFAIK (so bugs hopefully would be similar, plus there's nothing major stopping someone getting Ångström running in Scratchbox), and even if you don't run the QEMU output then Scratchbox would still be useful as a pre-configured ARM cross-compiler environment right?

Any thoughts? Anyone tried it or planning on giving it a go?

Cheers.

 

[overjupiter]

Tor has successfully used scratchbox for pandora development:

http://www.gp32x.de/board/index.php?/topic/44918-development-sdk-and-emulator/page__p__662740&#entry662740

 

[Tor]

Well, what I actually described in that posting was how I used scratchbox for _maemo_ development. However, I have built a few small applications in the Pandora SDK which I have deployed successfully on a Nokia tablet (those were SDL-based games). I'm eagerly waiting for my Pandora, and I expect it shall be possible to do that test the other way around too: Simple applications which don't depend on Maemo-specific libraries should be possible to build in the Maemo scratchbox, and deploy on Pandora. From there it shouldn't (I hope!) be too difficult to figure out how to modify such a scratchbox setup to be fully Pandora-oriented.