[Gpephone-devel] Development environment updates

[JIANG Dan RD-ILAB-PEK]

There is new version of scratchbox toolchain and SDK for development of GPE Phone Edition.
(The last version and the method on how to setup scratchbox refer to http://www.linuxtogo.org/gowiki/DevelopmentTools )

The OE toolchain could be found here. ( http://www.linuxtogo.org/~jiangdan/oe-x86-new2.tar.gz ). 
You should download it, unzip it to /scratchbox/compilers

The SDK could be found here. （http://www.linuxtogo.org/~jiangdan/sbox-gpesdk-generic-.dev-snapshot-20070201-i486.tar.gz ）The SDK includes all the libraries of GPE Phone Edition.

The steps for you to use:
1.	enter scratchbox
2.	in scratchbox, type: sb-menu
3.	in "Select action" window, choose: Setup   Setup a target, press <OK>
4.	in "Install into target" window, choose <NEW>   Create a new target, press <OK>
5.	in "Target name" window, Enter name for the new target. E.g., test, press <OK>
6.	in "Select compiler" window, choose oe-x86-new2   cross, press <OK>
7.	in "Select devkits" window, choose doctools, press <OK>, choose perl, press <OK>, choose DONE   Done selecting, choose DONE   Done selecting,
8.	in "Select CPU-transparency method" window, choose none, press <OK>
9.	in window of "Do you wish to extract a rootstrap on the target", choose <Yes>
10.	in window of "Select  action", choose File   Select a local file, press <OK>
11.	in window of "Use file as rootstrap", choose the SDK file, press <OK>
12.	in window of "Do you wish to install files to the target", press <Yes>
13.	in window of "Install files to target", choose /etc, Devkits, fakeroot, press <YES>
14.	in window of "Do you wish to slelect the target", press <Yes>
15.	now the scratchbox has changed the target to test
16.	cd /scratchbox/package, try to compile hello-world, if it is OK, you could try to build your codes.

Then you want to run your codes on the vmware image, the steps are as following:
1.	in vmplayer, choose image
2.	in the console, copy the library/ binary which is built by scratchbox.
3.	run and test



Please have a try first!

Your comments are warmly welcome!

Thanks!