[maemo-users] Cross-compiling for the N800

[From: Marius Gedminas]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:47:35PM +0100, Peter Flynn wrote:
> Ryan Pavlik wrote:
> > I'd suggest reading the Scratchbox docs -
> 
> Do you have a URI for these?

http://maemo.org/development/documentation/tutorials/maemo_4-0_tutorial.html
was sufficient for me, but there's more at
http://scratchbox.org/documentation/

> > you need to switch 
> > toolchains.  Right now you're using the i386 stuff so that you can build 
> > and test in a "simulated" N8X0.  Once you have it working the way you 
> > want, you switch "targets" and build again, which will give you an ARM 
> > binary.
> 
> Good grief. I just want to compile an existing .c file that already 
> works. I'm not developing anything.

I'm afraid "compiling a .c file" falls under the definition of
development, in this case.

I do agree that the whole Scratchbox setup is way too complicated.

> Does anyone have the incantation for switching the target to ARM so that 
> I can compile it?

sb-menu

When you start scratchbox with sb-login, you get a hint

  $ sb-login
  Welcome to Scratchbox, the cross-compilation toolkit!

  Use 'sb-menu' to change your compilation target.
  See /scratchbox/doc/ for documentation.
  
Marius Gedminas
-- 
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