Hello Banlu,
It would be really great to have GNUstep and Étoilé running on the n900. A
couple of us got 770s as part of the open source developer program, but the
hardware was a bit too limited. The n900 is almost as powerful as the machine
I was using for Étoilé development a year ago, so it should be great.
Getting GNUstep working on the device is the best place to start. I'd strongly
recommend that you use libobjc2. It is now a lot less RAM-heavy than the old
GNU runtime (in my testing, Gorm goes from needing 95MB to 50MB, which should
make a big difference on mobile devices). Clang has reasonably good ARM
support (Apple uses it for the iPhone), so compiling shouldn't be a problem.
Currently, there is no support for the ARM EABI exception ABI, although it's
being worked on, which means that you have to use setjmp() exceptions and
LanguageKit can't do non-local returns, but that's not a major problem.
I'm not sure what you mean by a step-by-step guide to joining Étoilé's SILC
channel. In the clients I've tried, the guide has been 'give the client the
address and then tell it to connect'. If you're using the command-line client,
/connect silc.etoile-project.org then /join Etoile should work. I have this in
my silc.conf, which connects me automatically:
servers = (
{ address = "silc.etoile-project.org"; chatnet = Etoile; port = 706;
autoconnect = "yes"; }
);
chatnets = {
Etoile = { type = "SILC"; };
};
channels = (
{ name = "Etoile"; chatnet = Etoile; autojoin = Yes; }
);
David
On 17 May 2010, at 20:34, Banlu Kemiyatorn wrote:
> hello etoile,
> i just got nokia n900, been using maemo for quite sometimes and since now
> they are moving to meego which aim to be not just for cellphones. i start to
> think that it would be nice to have a better dev environment than qt for
> mobile devices so i was thinking about building something over gnustep but
> then realize that it would be more interesting with etoile. anyone has such
> plan in mind or is it being done somewhere?
>
> anyway i wonder if there's a step by step guide to join etoile's silc channel
> especially from maemo, been trying to do that for years and been giving up. i
> know i didn't try enough but may be you guys will consider an irc channel
> somewhere so impatient n00b like me could easily drop quick & stupid
> questions. i do install irssi a couple of times but i still cannot get a clue
> on how to connect. i guess that's because i believe i shouldn't try that hard
> just to chat.. just for consideration!
>
> thanks
>
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