C development environment on the Nokia IT
 

Hi -

I know that the prevailing wisdom is that software builds should be done using Scratchbox on a PC-based Linux platform. I do, in fact, have an Ubuntu virtual machine on my Windows laptop for the express purpose of building software for my N800.

However........

I now have two 16GB SD memory cards on my N800, one of which is completely empty. I have no lack of storage space, and I think that I really do want to have a complete development environment resident on my N800. I don't care that the N800 is slower; I'm spending more time sloshing files back and forth.

So....

Is there a recipe, and ideally a repository set up to do C software development on the N800? For what it's worth, I'm still using IT OS 2007, and have decided not to upgrade due to the inferior xterm in OS 2008...

Re: C development environment on the Nokia IT
 

Using Red Pill or apt-get you can set up anything.

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I don't think OS2007 xterm was any better than the new one. On-screen or normal keyboard - it is still slow to write, better use ssh.

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good luck to you

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It's a little tricky setting things up on OS 2007 (on OS 2008 there is an all-in-one package installable via the Application Manager when in Red Pill Mode).

I was able to set up gcc (and g++) under OS 2007. IIRC, you need to grab and install (using Red Pill Mode)

binutils_2.16.91cs2005q3.2-5.osso1_armel.deb
cpp-3.4_3.4.4cs2005q3.2-5.osso8_armel.deb
g++-3.4_3.4.4cs2005q3.2-5.osso8_armel.deb
gcc-3.4_3.4.4cs2005q3.2-5.osso8_armel.deb
gcc-3.4-base_3.4.4cs2005q3.2-5.osso8_armel.deb
libstdc++6_3.4.4cs2005q3.2-5.osso8_armel.deb
libstdc++6-dev_3.4.4cs2005q3.2-5.osso8_armel.deb

Which you can find on or around http://repository.maemo.org/pool/maemo3.2/free/binary/

I like the OS 2007 terminal better too as it has word completion (disabled in OS 2008's terminal due to ssh passwords showing up) and the Ctrl key didn't require a pop-up dialog. But setting a C\C++\C# dev environment on OS 2008 is much easier.

If you do use OS 2007, I recommend SciTE as a nice development IDE.
http://fkwjcw.bay.livefilestore.com/...Q/sciteIDE.png

Under OS 2008 (and possibly OS 2007), there is now Geany.

http://fkwjcw.bay.livefilestore.com/...rfXQ/geany.png

Re: C development environment on the Nokia IT
 

Have you seen fiferboy's xterm builds?Teh 13 version is llike the 2007 one with no ctrl popup dialog.

PyGTKeditor is also nnice. I have scratchbbox installed but when I get a memcard, I'm gonna setup a development environment with maemocjk and a lot of hacking tools.

Re: C development environment on the Nokia IT
 

Thanks qwerty12. I downloaded the two builds of fifferboy's Terminal and will try them out.

Another major thing which I don't like about the OS 2008 Terminal is the lack of Caps Lock.

PyGTKeditor is a nice syntax editor, but it's not an IDE. The good thing about it is that unlike SciTE and Geany on OS 2008, it can use the built-in Matchbox Keyboard.

BTW: SciTE works (looks) better when ran via root. I setup Personal Menu today to launch it like that.

http://fkwjcw.bay.livefilestore.com/...zsA/scite2.png

Re: C development environment on the Nokia IT
 

which all in one package is it on 2008?

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In Red Pill Mode, it shows up as 'build-essential'. It's a wrapper package.

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OK, so I got that all going. Downloaded SciTE and tried it.
Is there a Maemo version of SciTe, as it takes a lot of room with the menu bar in the wrong place, and the file selector is almost impossible to use well.

However, I got to main() and when to put a brace in and hit the first problem. How do you do a brace? I got my 810 yesterday. I did a search and it said you pressed the chr key and got a character map, but I didn't and don't seem to be able to. I found pressing the chr and pressing keys give a few random characters, but no brace.

Anyone know how to do this, or some editor that is like SciTE but maemo'ised?