[maemo-developers] Is there any way to build Maemo applications which can run on N800 outside of the scratchbox

[From: Ken Bloom]

On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:00:20 +0800, Huang Gao wrote:

> Dear all:
> 
>        I am going to do some application development test on N800,
>        however I
> do not want to use scratchbox. And I am really confused of how to
> extract the cross compiler tool chain from Scratchbox and make it run in
> my Linux environment.

Development for an N800 outside scratchbox is not easy to do. 
Theoretically, I could do emdebian development for my Nokia, but the 
dependencies of the compiled applications would be all wrong. I have not 
succeded at doing qemu emulation of a maemo build environment, although 
that would potentially be very nice.

You'll probably need to build/download your own cross-compiler. What's 
your objection with scratchbox? Too big? If so, I've had success using my 
Maemo rootstrap with scratchbox 2, which is a much more generic tool. I 
did find that I've had to put some work into hacking the path mapping 
script that scratchbox 2 uses to get the right paths mapped in and out of 
the build root, but nothing too difficult.

--Ken

-- 
Ken (Chanoch) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/