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

[From: Lucas Rocha]

Hi Mathias,

> i just followed your guide and got problems with dbus-glib-1. Which
> repository should i use to get this file. The origin repository's from
> ubuntu did not contain this file. I use 6.06 LTS on a PC and 7.04 on a
> laptop.

Install this package: libdbus-glib-1-dev

Just let me know if you have any other problems. :-)

Cheers!

--lucasr


> 2007/4/2, Lucas Rocha <lucasr.at.mundo at gmail.com>:
>         Hei,
>         
>         2007/4/2, Kalle Vahlman <kalle.vahlman at gmail.com>:
>         > 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/ 
>         
>         Yes, you're right. Someone reported this a few hours ago and I
>         fixed
>         the wiki page accordingly. :-)
>         
>         > 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! :)
>         
>         I've commited a patch to libhildon which makes the use of
>         Maemo GTK+
>         specific API optional (--with-maemo-gtk=no). Of course this
>         has a
>         price: you lose some hints for the input methods on some
>         widgets. This 
>         problem will probably be solved with GTK+ 2.12 release.
>         
>         Let me know if you find any other issues. :-)
>         
>         Cheers!
>         
>         --lucasr
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