Hi,

all this depends a bit on what you want to do. If you want to start with Qt for example I would recommend you Qt Creator. Python doesn't need cross-compiling, so if you have a device you can test your code directly there, which you have coded...but search for the special use-case in the forum, there are already a lot of threads like this. But here in brief the differences between MADDE and SDK:


The combination of these components is available for linux. It offers you:

- a cross compiling environment
- a limited emulation of the device UI, where you can run and test your application. It's limited in a sense that you cannot test things like location, bluetooth etc.

As it is just available for linux, you could run it as a virtual image on your windows machine. Either by creating your own, or by taking a fully configured VMware image, which contains the basic SDK and Eclipse configured for Maemo development.

MADDE is a technical preview of a cross-compiling tool for Windows, Linux and Mac. It does not offer you an emulation of the device UI, but simply cross-compiles your sources for the device. So if you have a device and you want to develop with C/C++/Qt than this might be an option for you. More information you will find as well in this talk thread.

A lot of documentation you find as well in the wiki.

Daniel