[maemo-developers] [LONG] New user/devel and newbie question

[From: Kees Jongenburger]

Hello Ulises


On Jan 12, 2008 12:29 PM, Ulises <ulises.cervino at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> First of all, hi everybody, as the subject says, new user (and
> hopefully new developer here).
>
> I got my old Nokia 770 a couple of days ago and I absolutely thrilled
> with it. First time mobile user and all, you can't blame me ;)

Congragulations! I rember installing osso-xterm for the frist time
and typing uname -a on the 770 as if it was yesterday.

You are right in that not all the apps are installed on the SDK (the
Nokia relases are "based" on maemo but contain closed source code)

The install ussualy comes with two sbox targets one running x86 and
the other running ARM using qemu emulation.
The second one is mostly used to compile programs that target the
"real" hardware and not used to test if a program is running
correctly. The problems you describe are well know. If you are
programming for hildon (gui stuff) I think moost people use the X86
based target while developing hildon. and only switch to arm to
compile. Personaly I did not do much hildon based work so I was even
able to develop (BT based software on a normal linux machine) and then
only use the SDK to compile.

I hope this helps(I have not read everything..)!

greetings