Greetings everyone,<br><br>Here is the first report for my work on making Maemo software build with Open Embedded.<br><br>1. Porting work done so far -<br>I have had success with the base libraries - libosso, libhildon,libhildonfm for the UI parts and libconic etc. I started by studying the recipes for maemo-4 in OE written by Marcin Juszkiewicz (Hrw) and making the required modifications to them. Then I wrote my own basing off fremantle and making use of the maemo-gtk option (which was earlir set to no).<br>
I have made heavy use of the patches by the Mer community to get the builds going and thank them for the same.<br><br>The work can be seen here at <a href="http://github.com/rkirti/maemo-oe/tree/master">http://github.com/rkirti/maemo-oe/tree/master</a>.<br>
<br>I have only recently made a request for registering this project with garage.This repository will be shifted to Maemo garage when I get my project request approved.<br><br>This OE build is being done on a Mamona base - I have modified the Mamona distro. configuration in my OE tree to use the gtk+ and glib versions needed by maemo Fremantle as preferred providers. I chose Mamona because that is the only distro which supports N800 in OE so it will be easier for me later, when I work on the base layers.<br>
<br>I am currently working on hildon-desktop and the osso applications like osso-xterm. One issue that has been time-consuming and the cause of delay so far is I have been testing the packages on my own system without a chroot before building it in OE. This caused my system libraries (gtk and glib) to interfere with the maemo-gtk libraries I installed and break builds. I intend to switch to a chroot /some build mechanism to avoid this from now.<br>
<br>2. Testing work -<br>I am working on getting custom Mamona images built with OE to run on QEMU - again basing off Hrw's work in N800 emulation till I arrange for my own device. Meawhile, I also have a build of the Maemo components (till hildon-desktop) on an Angstrom base going on, which I intend to test on the Beagleboard which Valerio Valerio has arranged for us GSoC-ers.<br>
<br>Thanks and Regards,<br clear="all">---<br> _<br>(0- Kirtika Ruchandani <br>//\ Maemo GSoC student<br>v/_ Sophomore, CS&E @ IIT-Madras<br> IRC: rkirti<br> <a href="http://rkirti.wordpress.com">http://rkirti.wordpress.com</a><br>
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