[maemo-developers] Maemo development on Mac OS X

[From: Karoliina.T.Salminen at nokia.com]

Hello,

I would like to add that I have been trying to get some open source
software which is based on gtk+ or glib
running on Leopard (like Gimp2), and the situation currently is:
1. Fink does not install because it detects that I am using Leopard and
says that it requires Tiger
2. Macports work to some extent except for installation of gettext which
seems to try to execute
emacs on automake and emacs install from Macports does not seem to work
(it is a very weird
dependency by the way that automake of gettext executes emacs, have not
noticed such thing on Linux side).

You could develop plugins for Hildon Desktop and some Hildon
applications too without scratchox
(and do the final compilation on Scratchbox only) if you had the Hildon
stuff compiled on your native
system (I have done that on Linux and I was going to do it for Mac, but
haven't succeed so far). 
If you could get the dependencies to work first, you could compile
maemo-gtk+, maemo-glib, hildon-desktop
etc. and run these natively on the system. Might be doable on the old
Tiger, but on Leopard, because
Macports seems to be broken with Leopard, it does not work at least for
me.

Easiest way maybe is to install Ubuntu Linux on Parallels and run
scratchbox there. Alternatively you can
arrange a dual-boot configuration and run Ubuntu Linux and Leopard on
side by side.

Best Wishes
Karoliina



>> I just got a MacBook Pro and I was wondering if there is a way to 
>> install a Maemo development on it. I know I can run a Linux 
>box inside 
>> Parallels/VMWare, but I was wondering if there is a native 
>way to do it.
>>
>> Suggestions?
>
>Scratchbox is only for Linux, so there's not really any way to 
>do Maemo development other than Parallels/VMWare.
>
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