Re: Can I do basic C compilation on the unit itself?
 

It's certainly possible. It's even possible on a Palm PDA (I think there are several native compiler/build systems for it, at least I know for certain about a Pascal compiler). I never tried that, because the screen isn't big enough (I'm too used to lots of screen estate for development). But the N800 would be better than a Palm PDA for this. GCC is probably a bit large, but there are other compilers.. lcc, for example. You can compile it yourself. I haven't used it for years, but it should still be out there.

Besides, my first Linux computer was a 33 MHz 486 with 16 MB RAM. I routinely compiled gcc itself on it. And even Mozilla, when it was still called Netscape and just open-sourced (took 128MB of extra swap and I had to leave it overnight but still..).
Compared to that, my N800 is a supercomputer. :)

Re: Can I do basic C compilation on the unit itself?
 

I tried to find a lcc compiled to be used inside my 770, but no chance, and I have no idea how to compile a ... compiler inside 770 without the compiler ....

Re: Can I do basic C compilation on the unit itself?
 

Someone would have to build the compiler in the cross-compilation environment of scratchbox for the 770 (on a PC).

EDIT: Actually, I'll have to retract the whole idea about using lcc. I just checked, and it doesn't appear to have an ARM target, so I was mistaken. It can't be used, unfortunately (unless someone's implemented ARM support elsewhere, not included in official lcc sources)

Re: Can I do basic C compilation on the unit itself?
 

So, there is anyway to use gcc now in maemo OS2006 nokia 770, last version of os?

Re: Can I do basic C compilation on the unit itself?
 

That VMware image is a waste of time, as far as I am concerned. I downloaded it, and it would not run on my mobil pentium processor. So I downloaded ubuntu cd, which you can run from, used a 30GB usb drive for my /scratchbox filesystem and ran the install script. Worked great for me, and it worked on my laptop....

Re: Can I do basic C compilation on the unit itself?
 

I had no chance, I tried to download:
http://repository.maemo.org/pool/mae...ree/g/gcc-3.4/
witch seems to be for OS 2006-3
all packages but them seems to no install under my 770, so there is anyone with scratchbox that can create a .deb of gcc?
It would be great to make simple portings.
Please help us trying to do simple portages to our "OLD" N770...

Thanks

Re: Can I do basic C compilation on the unit itself?
 

You must add that repository to sources.list, and then install gcc-3.4 by means of 'apt-get', it should work.

Then to compile you are going to need some packages -dev since the majority of the header files (.h) don't come for default installed, though you can try it.

Cheers,

Re: Can I do basic C compilation on the unit itself?
 

And, ¿where I can find these -dev packages?
Thanks

Re: Can I do basic C compilation on the unit itself?
 

i believe he is refering to packages ending in "-dev", e,g, "libxau0-dev".

you can do a "$apt-cache search dev"

anyway, i have gcc-3.4-base installed, but i get command not found when i use gcc. g++ doesn't work too.

help will be greatly apprecated.

Re: Can I do basic C compilation on the unit itself?
 

You can run scratchbox on Windows with the QEMU emulator.
http://box.mmapps.net/~keesj/qemu_maemo_gentoo/