[Angstrom-distro-users] Akita media player

[Sy Ali]

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 6:49 AM, Koen Kooi <k.kooi at student.utwente.nl> wrote:
> On 07-11-2008 12:01, Sy Ali wrote:
>> Stupid question.  I see nothing for Akita.  Is there another build I could
>> use?
>
> Your akita doesn't support armv5te?

I did not know this association.  Other software explicitly says
"akita" and I didn't know what was compatible.
http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/repo/?pkgname=madplay


>> Oh.  But this is for desktop building.  Is there a way to just
>> download source to the palm and build software on it?
>
> install task-native-sdk

I would try that, but it seems that Akita and armv5te is not supported
for this package.  It seems I am out of luck.
http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/repo/?pkgname=task-native-sdk

I have not investigated its many dependencies.


On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 6:51 AM, Stanislav Brabec <utx at penguin.cz> wrote:
> If are lazy to prepare a package for cross compilation, you may want to
> try the native compilation. Akita itself is not so bad for it. It's
> enough to install compiler and required -dev packages and you can start.
> You may need to create swap.
>
> It's a bit slow, but for small C projects it's still acceptable:
> mpd: ~5 minutes
> kernel: ~5 hours

This is exactly my intention.  I'm glad it's possible.