[Gpephone-devel] Scratchbox SDK

[Florian Boor]

Hi!

I have a first scratchbox-based SDK packge for GPE Phone Edition available. You
can use this to build binaries for the VMWare Demo images, but it should be
pretty easy to reproduce the same for arbitrary cellphone devices.
It is quite similar to the VMWare images because scratchbox behaves like a
virtual machine. You can compile, install and test binaries there like on a real
device. To test GUI applications you can use Xoo running on your host PC. You
can update the installed libraries in Scratchbox like on a PC: Install an
updated ipk (if you have) or build and install a new piece of software in there.

I hope the compiler works on all current distributions. You can find some
instructions and download links in the Wiki:

http://www.linuxtogo.org/gowiki/DevelopmentTools

Please report problems and success so that we can improve this SDK. I would like
to make an official release and add it to the download section once it is proven
to work reliable.

Some known issues are:
- autogen.sh fails to generate a correct po/Makefile.in for some parts of our
software. In this case try to use the autogen.sh from gpe-applauncher.
- libsettings is not yet included. You can build it from svn, and install it in
the SDK - it might be useful to set the prefix to /usr which is what all other
libraries use too.
- The /etc directory is quite limited and might want to contain some more stuff
necessary for launching the GUI applications.

Enjoy!

Greetings

Florian

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