Developing ON the N900
 

Hello!

I'm new to the Maemo-Nokia thing. I'm thinking of buying a N900. However, I have a couple of questions. I only use FreeBSD. From what I can deduce from a simple survey of the forums, it seems the SDK is only available to linux-machines, or, possible, thrue a WM like Virtualbox. Is this correct? Anyone developing for the N900 using FreeBSD as host?

What about compiling C-programs directly on the N900? Possible? Is there a compiler on the N900 itself that one could use to compile directly on the N900 device?

Oh, one more question: is git (scm) available on the N900?

Regards
/Benny

Re: Developing ON the N900
 

Hi,

I use PyGTKEditor as source editor, i use python as main language so i cannot confirm that gcc is usable on the n900 but i know lcuk use it.

And yes git is available, but git push doesn't work as some libs haven't the required compilation directive.

Regards,

Re: Developing ON the N900
 

I compile it on ubuntu and push the binary to the n900.

Re: Developing ON the N900
 

when setting up to use qt i asked about on device compilation. i was told the n900 is just a tad too slow to make it a pleasant experience. compilation apparently takes a LONG time

Re: Developing ON the N900
 

i have coppied the armel scratchbox from desktop to /home/user on n900. it works. but is somewhat slow. i chroot into it to use it but i guess this is not essential.

Re: Developing ON the N900
 

check this post

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=34412&page=4

Re: Developing ON the N900
 

Thanks for the replies! I have a better grasp of things now. I think I will try to compile on the N900 itself. I only have small programs and I dont mind long compile-times.

Also, I notice the MADDE project, looks very interresting.

I might do python later on.

Thanks.