Thread: Getting started on Maemo 5 in Windows 7
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Nathan is offline Nathan
2009-09-12 , 00:12
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Originally Posted by lostinmirkwood View Post
Nathan,
Thanks so much for your help.
Just wanted to add that I have made a successful install following your directions:
I like to hear of success!

VM:VMWare Player ( I tried MS Virtual 2007, but found it choppy to the point of unreasonable.
Interesting -- I totally forgot that VMPlayer could convert a VHD... Maybe I should make a script to install what is needed for VMPlayer for those who want to use VMPlayer but want to use my Image...


GFX: (Intel 915*, so I have Odd resolution issues in the VM in jaunty)
Actually this is because VPC shows the video card as a S3 and (I believe) VMWare thinks it is a Trident. The modes need to be changed to for VMWare.

QT: installed and running great (though I really don't know how to emulate on Xepher yet)[/quote]

To make a QT app for Xephyr you need to follow the general Maemo QT development Wiki (Should be a link in the VM's firefox browser <G>).

Their is no real integration yet. the vm image was designed at this point to get you "started" with the linux side of things and eliminate as many road blocks as I could to getting Windows developers up and running. You can now start following the wiki and learning, w/o the complexities of getting linux setup (and the vm compatibilty stuff), getting scratchbox, xephyr and qt.

As a small status update last night I successfully compiled a full copy of QT-Creator on my linux VM so that I can actually start doing a plugin for it. YEH!

Once I have time I plan on making a Plugin for QT-Creator that will handle the Xephyr/Scratchbox complexity. ;-D

Basically My idea is to have an ability to choose your "target" Native, Scratchbox x86, Scratchbox Armel. Depending on what you pick it should then handle what needs to happen. Unless others can think of a better way; I think the easist method would be probably to sync the code into the environment and then compile it.

then went through Step #1-3. Nok_Bins seemed to fail the first time through. I reran#3 Nok bins installed this time. (dependencies order)
I had issues too -- I think they must be doing some updates...

the install script suggested that I run an apt-get update inside of scratchbox, and I'm getting the following error:
W: GPG error: http://repository.maemo.org fremantle Release: Couldn't access keyring: 'No such file or directory'

This continues for 7 more dependencies.

Yeah, they appeared to be having either bandwidth issues or doing some updates. I don't recall any errors about coupldn't access keyring. You might need to do a "fakeroot apt-get update" inside the scratchbox...


I ask because I'm having the same issue of not have background images and none of the icons(Settings, Apps, etc.) on the desktop working as this thread and I'm wondering if my install is correct..

I read that thread -- it does appear that they had the same issue with some packages not being downloaded. Their is "five" set of packages.

1. Scrachbox (Main Install)
2. Scracthbox - Armel (SDK)
3. Scratchbox - x86 (SDK)
4. Scrachbox - Armel (Binaries)
5. Scratchbox - x86 (Binaries)

If something breaks in any one of them you get a crappy install.

I have seen the binaries fail, so I have a simple check on the two binaries installs (Error 1 & Error 2). If you get those, you just need to re-run the script and hopefully the repository will be working at that point.

Nathan.
 

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