With Python it's possible to dynamically detect if you're on maemo or
not and load the real maemo stuff or just some proxies. This is the
way I develop MediaBox on my Linux desktop.
With C it's possible too, but a bit more complicated.


Cheers,
Martin


2008/2/21, Ryan Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Ken Bloom wrote:
>  > On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:00:20 +0800, Huang Gao wrote:
>  >
>  >
>  >> Dear all:
>  >>
>  >>        I am going to do some application development test on N800,
>  >>        however I
>  >> do not want to use scratchbox. And I am really confused of how to
>  >> extract the cross compiler tool chain from Scratchbox and make it run in
>  >> my Linux environment.
>  >>
>  >
>  > Development for an N800 outside scratchbox is not easy to do.
>  > Theoretically, I could do emdebian development for my Nokia, but the
>  > dependencies of the compiled applications would be all wrong. I have not
>  > succeded at doing qemu emulation of a maemo build environment, although
>  > that would potentially be very nice.
>  >
>  > You'll probably need to build/download your own cross-compiler. What's
>  > your objection with scratchbox? Too big? If so, I've had success using my
>  > Maemo rootstrap with scratchbox 2, which is a much more generic tool. I
>  > did find that I've had to put some work into hacking the path mapping
>  > script that scratchbox 2 uses to get the right paths mapped in and out of
>  > the build root, but nothing too difficult.
>  >
>  > --Ken
>  >
>  >
>
> IIRC there is a Scratchbox 2-based build system now available for Maemo,
>  called Maemo SDK+ which might save you some effort there.
>
>
>  Ryan
>
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