On Wednesday 07 May 2008 01:19:00 Thomas Jensen wrote:
> Clinton Ebadi wrote:
> > The nice part about the Openmoko platform is that you can now apply
> > the Emacs mentality to a phone: if it is a simple feature you can hack
> > it together in an afternoon yourself.
>
> I am new here. Do I understand this correct - it will be possible to
> write programs on the phone for the phone? Or will I need to write and
> compile the programs on a pc?
>
> One thing I liked about my Palm PDA was OnBoardC - I had my first
> program running, written on the PDA, a week after I got it. But Palm
> also had some very fine documentation, and OnBoardC had a programming
> Cookbook, so it was easy to get started.
>
> I have not been able to find the same level of documentation (yet?) to
> OM. I have downloaded the toolchain, and I more or less know how to use
> it, thanks to a wiki page (wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Toolchain).
>
> But..
>
> > It would probably take about two hours if you were jumping into the
> > framework from scratch. So just do it.
>
> Do you have a link to a good starting point? :-)
AFAIK, the OM system is a FULL linux system allowing support for ANY
programming tool available on linux Providing there is a arm version of the
tool floating around.
In fact, because of cross compilers, it is possible to write software on the
phone but not for the phone (e.g even for WinCE might be feasible)
HHT
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