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

[From: Ryan Pavlik]

Ken Bloom wrote:
> 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
>
>   
IIRC there is a Scratchbox 2-based build system now available for Maemo, 
called Maemo SDK+ which might save you some effort there.

Ryan