[maemo-developers] New developer - lots of questions

[From: Alberto Garcia]

O Venres 16/11/2007 ás 14:25, maemo at bitblit.net dicía...

> 1) Is it possible to have both Maemo 3.x and Maemo 4.x SDKs
> installed at the same time on one machine? If so, any HOWTO's for
> that? Any gotchas?

Yes, it's possible. Just install scratchbox and then install each
SDK. You don't need any HOWTO nor special steps to follow.

In fact I installed Maemo 2, 3 and 4 in the same machine without any
problems.

A complete Debian system with all three SDKs in a QEMU compressed
image is ~1.2 GB

> 3) Does each version of mamemo generate unique compiler symbols
> (maybe so I can use #ifdef in C to do conditional compiles)? How
> about if I want to write one set of code that can be built for both
> desktop and maemo device use? Any symbols could be used for that?

I don't know what is the "standard" way of detecting which version of
Maemo you're using, but you can do it using autoconf and checking the
versions of some basic libraries such as libosso and hildon.

-- 
Alberto García González
http://people.igalia.com/berto/