On Dec 4, 2007 2:56 PM, Lars Hallberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But You don't want to build more than necessary. I have seen gcc, g++, > make and stuff available for ipkg - but are there any dev versions of > the libs available? And would it be possible to have stripped libs on > the neo and install dev libs (and dev env) on the memory card?
Yes all the ipkg's you need exist, but there isn't enough flash to install them all. What I did is reformat a MicroSD card to ext2, cp -a /usr to the card, then modify /etc/fstab to automatically mount the card on /usr at boot. Then install task-base-dev and whatever else you need. The regular image is not modified much (since nearly all the new files are installed under /usr), so you can still run without that card, but if you have it mounted you have all the tools. (I suppose it could also be done with unionfs, that would save some space.) And if you reflash your phone you just need to recopy /usr to the card (some stuff will be overwritten, but no need to re-install all the dev packages if they have not changed) and make the modification to fstab again. I also have /usr/root as a "second" home directory so there is some space for source trees. I was able to compile Chicken Scheme that way, right on the phone (it took hours), and am working (slowly) on my Display Scheme GUI. Chicken has a Scheme-to-C compiler, so you need gcc to get compiled binaries, and doing that with a cross compiler is even more trouble than cross-compiling usually is; which is why I wanted to do it on the phone. But somebody else managed to cross-compile Chicken plus some extensions... someday if nobody else gets around to it, I will try to generate the bitbake recipes for that. I managed to compile nvi (because the busybox vi kinda sucks and vim is kinda big). I guess in theory you could try emacs if you're into that. :-) I tried to get an svn client on the phone but did not succeed. That would be really useful... _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
