[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] GKrellM on Maemo

[From: Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

> It compiled/ran without a single modification on SDK_PC but I ran into
> graphics and font issues when trying to run it on SDK_ARM usingQEMU.
> More information (and screenshots!) can be found in my weblogpost above.

ARM qemu doesn't (currently) work with Pango and therefore you
unfortunately cannot run Gtk programs with it.

You need to setup a "CPU transparency device" for ARM like explained
in the Scratchbox documentation to test this.  Or test the program
directly on an ARM device.


However, if the program works on the x86 environment, it should work
after ARM compilation work on the ARM too.  ARM specific problems are
pretty rare and mostly about there not being enough RAM or program
being too slow.

For very specific programs, the difference between the Scratchbox
environment (where everything is run as normal user and device files
correspond to x86 host kernel and HW etc) and target environment
can be problem.  An example of this kind of a program could be a
daemon controlling access to some device file and wanting to run
with specific priviledges.  However, these you probably want to
develop directly on the target device anyway. :-)


	- Eero