Juan Alberto Aranda Alvarez wrote: > My question is: Is there a way to cross compile the Xglamo/Xorg server > using the toolchain?. > > On the other hand, from what I've gathered most of you use bitbake (for > whatever distribution). That's fine, it looks cool but takes forever to > do anything. Is very frustrating to wait around 3, 5, 6 hours and then > get some error and suddenly I realize that it didn't work. > > Its technically possible but I have never tried to do it. Once I have an OE build done then that has everything I need for software development. So bending over backwards for the toolchain always seemed like such a hassle.
Also OE only takes 3 hours the first time. Once that is done the longest it takes to do a rebuild is about 20 minutes. But rebuilds from scratch are very rare. > My task right now is "simple", the xorg server running on the phone with > a hardware accelerated driver for the graphic processor/chipset running > on the phone. I don't need to build the whole distribution. > > I'm willing to learn how to use bitbake, but the instructions on the > wiki don't seem to work, there's an issue with ffmpeg (I guess is not > there anymore?). Now, about the xglamo tree on git.openmoko.org. How dow > I go about to building and installing it on the phone?, I don't mind > using another tool. > > ffmpeg? I didn't think that was even in the basic images. You'll need to give more details. > Its been 2 months since Graeme's email on November 19th > (http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/devel/2008-November/003274.html). > Here I gather he's giving instructions on how to build the server using > bitbake (am I right on this?). > > Yes, I only ever use the toolchain inside OE. Works for everything I want to do. > Juan Aranda > Welcome and good luck going forwards! Graeme _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
