[maemo-developers] Building Hildon Desktop outside Maemo/Scratchbox environment

[From: Kalle Vahlman]

2007/3/29, Lucas Rocha <lucas.rocha at nokia.com>:
> Hi Maemo heroes,
>
> I wrote a step-by-step guide to have Hildon Desktop running outside the
> Maemo/Scratchbox environment. Our major goal here is to make it easy for
> distributons to package Hildon Desktop so that developers can have a
> quick-to-setup environment for the development of plugins which doesn't
> need to be built against ARM such as Python plugins. For now, this guide
> only applies to Ubuntu (If you can point out the changes needed to work
> on another distribution, please let me know). This is a call for testers
> and brave developers to follow the guide and report the
> missing/problematic bits.
>
>   http://maemo.org/maemowiki/HildonDesktopPortability

Just noticed that the hildon-1 branch mentioned there doesn't exist,
it's apparently moved to trunk/

Also was pleasently surprised that I didn't manage to send a (quick &
possibly dirty) patch for compiling it against stock GTK+ before it
already did so! :)

-- 
Kalle Vahlman, zuh at iki.fi
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