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2011-03-13 , 10:52
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For developers, the N900 is probably the greatest device, or at least so it is for me. I mean, what other device has a terminal window, Vim, a Python interpreter and the ability to chroot into Debian?

While learning a new programming language, I have often been very happy to be able to try things out directly on my phone; when I don't have another computer available. There are still a lack of ports of some compilers and/or interpreters. The ones I am myself interested in include:
  • GCC (for C)
  • (MIT/GNU) Scheme
  • (GNU) Forth
  • Scala
I would like to know what the interest for different compilers and interpreters are. Are anyone interested in porting some of these? I could probably try to port some myself as well.

My questions are:
  • Are you interested in the ones listed above, and/or some others (which?)?
  • Are you willing to port some of them?
 
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2011-03-13 , 11:07
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You can install gcc, g++, make etc. with apt-get.
I sometimes code some c or c++ on the device so I install everything I need for that with "apt-get install minutils gcc g++ make build-essentials" aswell as sdl devel libs. Before compiling I just have to make sure I have enough space in temp "export TMPDIR=/home/user/MyDocs/tmp".

I think there is a way to chroot into a development image, but I'm not sure plus with this I can get to coding fast and simple.
 
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2011-03-13 , 11:20
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Originally Posted by Zas View Post
You can install gcc, g++, make etc. with apt-get.
I sometimes code some c or c++ on the device so I install everything I need for that with "apt-get install minutils gcc g++ make build-essentials" aswell as sdl devel libs. Before compiling I just have to make sure I have enough space in temp "export TMPDIR=/home/user/MyDocs/tmp".

I think there is a way to chroot into a development image, but I'm not sure plus with this I can get to coding fast and simple.
I tried sudo apt-get install gcc, with updated repositories and extras-devel enabled, but it couldn't find the package. Which repository is it located in?
 
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2011-03-19 , 20:58
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Maemo 5 does have a GCC package (and other related developpment packages like make), it's in the sdk repository

deb http://repository.maemo.org fremantle/sdk free non-free
add this to sources.list or the Application Manager
 

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2011-03-19 , 21:15
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There's also an SDK Tools repository,which you get to by replacing "sdk" in the above line with "tools", if I recall correctly.

You can easily just install this stuff with apt-get, the problem is none of it is optified so it eats a healthy chunk of rootfs space. When I installed gcc and the like (before my last reflash, haven't gotten around to it since), I manually optified all the libs/binaries, but yeah. That part's a PITA.
 
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