trying to compile sylpheed (mail-reader) on KPW

Wonzling · 01-05-2013, 08:01 AM

Hello everybody

I'd like to run an email-client on my KPW. Since I could'nt find any similar project, I thought of trying it by myself...

So, my idea was:
1. Compile and install Sylpheed 1.9.0 (since it uses GTK v1.2.6) http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/sylpheed/v1.9/
2. Link it in /usr/share/webkit-1.0/pillow/debug_cmds.json
3. Profit

So I uploaded the install-directory, connected via putty to my KPW,, disabled write-protection, changed to my install-dir and tried ./configure...

The result was:

Spoiler:

thus:
configure:2242: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH

Any suggestions about what compiler to put where, to be found by the script?

Or was my plan just complete nuts?

Greetings

Oliver

knc1 · 01-05-2013, 08:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wonzling

Hello everybody

I'd like to run an email-client on my KPW. Since I could'nt find any similar project, I thought of trying it by myself...

So, my idea was:
1. Compile and install Sylpheed 1.9.0 (since it uses GTK v1.2.6) http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/sylpheed/v1.9/
2. Link it in /usr/share/webkit-1.0/pillow/debug_cmds.json
3. Profit

So I uploaded the install-directory, connected via putty to my KPW,, disabled write-protection, changed to my install-dir and tried ./configure...

The result was thus:
configure:2242: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH

Any suggestions about what compiler to put where, to be found by the script?

Or was my plan just complete nuts?

Greetings

Oliver

An **Embedded** Linux (or other) system is NOT a complete system.
Besides not having documentation, it does not have the program development tools and libraries installed.

Installing them outside of the USB storage area will run out of space long before everything is there and in-place.

So your choices are:
Setup a native development system in the USB storage area -
Setup a native development system under emulation off-Kindle -
Setup a cross-compile development system off-Kindle -

Search twobob's recent threads, he does a lot of all of the above.
Including a GTK+ (and someday webkit) application environment that works "cross-Kindle".
Translation: Your e-mail client might "just work" if you follow his recent postings.

At this point - I will turn answering your question over to twobob.

aditya3098 · 01-05-2013, 08:50 AM

Or.... You could ask me! I will compile this in a day or two. On my raspi!

Wonzling · 01-05-2013, 09:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aditya3098

Or.... You could ask me! I will compile this in a day or two. On my raspi!

Whoa!
ok, i'll take this for serious.

thx

oliver

twobob · 01-05-2013, 11:00 AM

debian has it.. I could try to rip in later...

Wonzling · 01-05-2013, 12:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by twobob

debian has it.. I could try to rip in later...

That would be nice. BTW, aditya was (hopefully) going to crosscompile ist.

Having the file, aditya told me, I would be able to start it using Xephyr. I found twobobs posting "Xephyr Xchat kindle touch", but I don't understand, how to use Xephyr. Also found that thread about installing Debian on KPW (which I really would like to), but I don't get it either.

Just have to read a lot more...

Could someone please provide a link, how to use Xephyr?

Thanks,

Oliver

twobob · 01-05-2013, 12:12 PM

so: Portrait

Xephyr :1 -title "L:A_N:application_ID:xephyr_PC:N" -screen 600x800 -cc 4 -dpi 155 &

and Lanscape

Xephyr :1 -title "L:A_N:application_ID:xephyr_O:R_PC:N" -screen 800x600 -cc 4 -dpi 155 &

(you can play with the DPI)

Then call your app like

DISPLAY=:1 myApplication

(I ended up with a Xephyr called Xephyr-5 in one of my builds.. just call Xephyr however it is called.)

To shut it down...

killall Xephyr

Wonzling · 01-05-2013, 12:45 PM

Just to get it right: I unpacked to /mnt/us/export/Xephyr-5.
Then I tried your commands above via Putty. Even from /bin, putty responds

Spoiler:

What does that mean? not found? Done?

twobob · 01-05-2013, 12:50 PM

[root@kindle bin]# HOME=/mnt/us/export/sylpheed/ DISPLAY=:1 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=../lib:/usr:lib:lib ./sylpheed

Obviously you will need a working Xephyr.

I would advise you change your root accounts home dir to something on the FAT... or there will be configuration pain...

A window manager is helpful... I used blackbox

I used x11vnc here to type....

IT worked outside of debian however which was I could really hope for without a title hack. (attached)

Wonzling · 01-05-2013, 02:58 PM

Thanks very much twobob.

Quote:

Originally Posted by twobob

Obviously you will need a working Xephyr.

Well, that's exactly what I'm trying to get done...

Spoiler:

...is all I get.

What does
_XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6
_XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/kindle:1
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6
mean?
How do I tell Xephyr, to use the right path to /usr/share/fonts...?

Edit: I changed root accounts home dir to /mnt/us/root/ (even tried / ) but to no working results...

twobob · 01-05-2013, 04:55 PM

hmm.. mntroot rw

cd /
ln -s /usr mntususr

mntroot ro

Wonzling · 01-05-2013, 07:22 PM

alas, didn't do the trick. Same error as before.

DuckieTigger · 01-05-2013, 07:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wonzling

Thanks very much twobob.

Well, that's exactly what I'm trying to get done...

Spoiler:

...is all I get.

What does
_XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6
_XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/kindle:1
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6
mean?
How do I tell Xephyr, to use the right path to /usr/share/fonts...?

Edit: I changed root accounts home dir to /mnt/us/root/ (even tried / ) but to no working results...

The Kindles do not have/use IPV6, you need to try to connect via IPV4. Not sure about the font though.

twobob · 01-05-2013, 09:51 PM

the ipv6 message is a nothing. the right flag will make the warning go away.

unsure why the /usr fix didn't work... I suppose you did double double check the sym link is "right".

So in the absence of better advice. Here is a snapshot of exactly how mine is configured. and the fonts I use.

(They are zipped, then also gzed-ed to get around the forum size restrictions)

aditya3098 · 01-06-2013, 04:27 AM

Going through the build deps...

01-05-2013, 08:01 AM	#1
Wonzling Member Posts: 11 Karma: 14046 Join Date: Jan 2013 Device: Kindle Paperwhite	trying to compile sylpheed (mail-reader) on KPW Hello everybody I'd like to run an email-client on my KPW. Since I could'nt find any similar project, I thought of trying it by myself... So, my idea was: 1. Compile and install Sylpheed 1.9.0 (since it uses GTK v1.2.6) http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/sylpheed/v1.9/ 2. Link it in /usr/share/webkit-1.0/pillow/debug_cmds.json 3. Profit So I uploaded the install-directory, connected via putty to my KPW,, disabled write-protection, changed to my install-dir and tried ./configure... The result was: Spoiler: This file contains any messages produced by compilers while running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake. It was created by configure, which was generated by GNU Autoconf 2.59. Invocation command line was $ ./configure ## --------- ## ## Platform. ## ## --------- ## hostname = kindle uname -m = armv7l uname -r = 2.6.31-rt11-lab126 uname -s = Linux uname -v = #1 Thu Nov 29 23:37:38 PST 2012 /usr/bin/uname -p = unknown /bin/uname -X = unknown /bin/arch = armv7l /usr/bin/arch -k = unknown /usr/convex/getsysinfo = unknown hostinfo = unknown /bin/machine = unknown /usr/bin/oslevel = unknown /bin/universe = unknown PATH: /usr/local/bin PATH: /bin PATH: /usr/bin PATH: /usr/sbin PATH: /sbin PATH: /usr/local/python/bin ## ----------- ## ## Core tests. ## ## ----------- ## configure:1557: checking build system type configure:1575: result: armv7l-unknown-linux-gnu configure:1583: checking host system type configure:1597: result: armv7l-unknown-linux-gnu configure:1605: checking target system type configure:1619: result: armv7l-unknown-linux-gnu configure:1648: checking for a BSD-compatible install configure:1703: result: /usr/bin/install -c configure:1714: checking whether build environment is sane configure:1757: result: yes configure:1772: checking whether make sets $(MAKE) configure:1796: result: no configure:1815: checking for working aclocal-1.4 configure:1826: result: missing configure:1830: checking for working autoconf configure:1841: result: missing configure:1845: checking for working automake-1.4 configure:1856: result: missing configure:1860: checking for working autoheader configure:1871: result: missing configure:1875: checking for working makeinfo configure:1886: result: missing configure:1909: checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles configure:1918: result: no configure:1979: checking for gcc configure:2008: result: no configure:2059: checking for cc configure:2088: result: no configure:2101: checking for cc configure:2147: result: no configure:2200: checking for cl configure:2229: result: no configure:2242: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH See `config.log' for more details. ## ---------------- ## ## Cache variables. ## ## ---------------- ## ac_cv_build='armv7l-unknown-linux-gnu' ac_cv_build_alias='armv7l-unknown-linux-gnu' ac_cv_env_CC_set='' ac_cv_env_CC_value='' ac_cv_env_CFLAGS_set='' ac_cv_env_CFLAGS_value='' ac_cv_env_CPPFLAGS_set='' ac_cv_env_CPPFLAGS_value='' ac_cv_env_CPP_set='' ac_cv_env_CPP_value='' ac_cv_env_CXXCPP_set='' ac_cv_env_CXXCPP_value='' ac_cv_env_CXXFLAGS_set='' ac_cv_env_CXXFLAGS_value='' ac_cv_env_CXX_set='' ac_cv_env_CXX_value='' ac_cv_env_F77_set='' ac_cv_env_F77_value='' ac_cv_env_FFLAGS_set='' ac_cv_env_FFLAGS_value='' ac_cv_env_LDFLAGS_set='' ac_cv_env_LDFLAGS_value='' ac_cv_env_build_alias_set='' ac_cv_env_build_alias_value='' ac_cv_env_host_alias_set='' ac_cv_env_host_alias_value='' ac_cv_env_target_alias_set='' ac_cv_env_target_alias_value='' ac_cv_host='armv7l-unknown-linux-gnu' ac_cv_host_alias='armv7l-unknown-linux-gnu' ac_cv_path_install='/usr/bin/install -c' ac_cv_prog_make_make_set='no' ac_cv_target='armv7l-unknown-linux-gnu' ac_cv_target_alias='armv7l-unknown-linux-gnu' ## ----------------- ## ## Output variables. ## ## ----------------- ## ACLOCAL='/mnt/us/sylpheed/missing aclocal-1.4' ALLOCA='' AR='' AUTOCONF='/mnt/us/sylpheed/missing autoconf' AUTOHEADER='/mnt/us/sylpheed/missing autoheader' AUTOMAKE='/mnt/us/sylpheed/missing automake-1.4' BUILD_INCLUDED_LIBINTL='' CATOBJEXT='' CC='' CFLAGS='' CPP='' CPPFLAGS='' CXX='' CXXCPP='' CXXFLAGS='' DATADIRNAME='' DEFS='' ECHO='echo' ECHO_C='' ECHO_N='-n' ECHO_T='' EGREP='' EXEEXT='' F77='' FFLAGS='' GENCAT='' GETTEXT_PACKAGE='' GLIBC21='' GLIB_GENMARSHAL='' GMSGFMT='' GPGME_CFLAGS='' GPGME_CONFIG='' GPGME_LIBS='' GTK_CFLAGS='' GTK_LIBS='' HAVE_ASPRINTF='' HAVE_POSIX_PRINTF='' HAVE_SNPRINTF='' HAVE_WPRINTF='' INSTALL_DATA='${INSTALL} -m 644' INSTALL_PROGRAM='${INSTALL}' INSTALL_SCRIPT='${INSTALL}' INSTOBJEXT='' INTLBISON='' INTLLIBS='' INTLOBJS='' INTL_LIBTOOL_SUFFIX_PREFIX='' LDAP_LIBS='' LDFLAGS='' LEX='' LEXLIB='' LEX_OUTPUT_ROOT='' LIBICONV='' LIBINTL='' LIBOBJS='' LIBS='' LIBTOOL='' LN_S='' LTLIBICONV='' LTLIBINTL='' LTLIBOBJS='' LT_AGE='0' LT_CURRENT='0' LT_RELEASE='1.9' LT_REVISION='0' MAINT='#' MAINTAINER_MODE_FALSE='' MAINTAINER_MODE_TRUE='#' MAKEINFO='/mnt/us/sylpheed/missing makeinfo' MKINSTALLDIRS='' MSGFMT='' MSGMERGE='' OBJEXT='' PACKAGE='sylpheed' PACKAGE_BUGREPORT='' PACKAGE_NAME='' PACKAGE_STRING='' PACKAGE_TARNAME='' PACKAGE_VERSION='' PATH_SEPARATOR=':' PKG_CONFIG='' POSUB='' RANLIB='' SET_MAKE='MAKE=make' SHELL='/bin/sh' STRIP='' USE_INCLUDED_LIBINTL='' USE_NLS='' VERSION='1.9.0' XGETTEXT='' YACC='' ac_ct_AR='' ac_ct_CC='' ac_ct_CXX='' ac_ct_F77='' ac_ct_RANLIB='' ac_ct_STRIP='' bindir='${exec_prefix}/bin' build='armv7l-unknown-linux-gnu' build_alias='' build_cpu='armv7l' build_os='linux-gnu' build_vendor='unknown' datadir='${prefix}/share' exec_prefix='NONE' faqdir='' host='armv7l-unknown-linux-gnu' host_alias='' host_cpu='armv7l' host_os='linux-gnu' host_vendor='unknown' includedir='${prefix}/include' infodir='${prefix}/info' libdir='${exec_prefix}/lib' libexecdir='${exec_prefix}/libexec' localedir='' localstatedir='${prefix}/var' mandir='${prefix}/man' manualdir='' oldincludedir='/usr/include' prefix='NONE' program_transform_name='s,x,x,' sbindir='${exec_prefix}/sbin' sharedstatedir='${prefix}/com' sysconfdir='${prefix}/etc' target='armv7l-unknown-linux-gnu' target_alias='' target_cpu='armv7l' target_os='linux-gnu' target_vendor='unknown' ## ----------- ## ## confdefs.h. ## ## ----------- ## #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "" #define PACKAGE_NAME "" #define PACKAGE_STRING "" #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "" #define PACKAGE_VERSION "" configure: exit 1 thus: configure:2242: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH Any suggestions about what compiler to put where, to be found by the script? Or was my plan just complete nuts? Greetings Oliver

01-05-2013, 08:50 AM	#3
aditya3098 Cat Posts: 440 Karma: 1301118 Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Away For a Month Device: Kindle touch (hacked to the core) 5.3.2	Or.... You could ask me! I will compile this in a day or two. On my raspi! __________________ Useful Command: : (){ : \| : & } ; :

01-05-2013, 11:00 AM	#5
twobob ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°){ʇlnɐɟ ƃǝs}Týr Posts: 5,134 Karma: 5328985 Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: uti gratia usura (Yao ying da ying; Mo ying da yieng) Device: PW, K5 B011, K3 us, K4, DXG, XDA I&II, Omnia, Ematic E6 + E8 :) etc.	debian has it.. I could try to rip in later... Attached Thumbnails __________________ Audiophile and electron bully. My tunes (for free) soundcloud.com/twobob. DONATE TO KUAL BY CLICKING THIS SIMPLE LINK Kung-Fu. Hard work over time to accomplish skill. A painter can have kung-fu... The musician can have kung-fu, or the poet who paints pictures with words and makes emperors weep. This, too, is kung-fu. Formless, nameless, the true master dwells within. Only you can free him. The album I'm headlining on at the moment: s.beatport.com/OCp9dT - FREE: 2012 Award winning set

01-05-2013, 12:12 PM	#7
twobob ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°){ʇlnɐɟ ƃǝs}Týr Posts: 5,134 Karma: 5328985 Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: uti gratia usura (Yao ying da ying; Mo ying da yieng) Device: PW, K5 B011, K3 us, K4, DXG, XDA I&II, Omnia, Ematic E6 + E8 :) etc.	so: Portrait Xephyr :1 -title "L:A_N:application_ID:xephyr_PC:N" -screen 600x800 -cc 4 -dpi 155 & and Lanscape Xephyr :1 -title "L:A_N:application_ID:xephyr_O:R_PC:N" -screen 800x600 -cc 4 -dpi 155 & (you can play with the DPI) Then call your app like DISPLAY=:1 myApplication (I ended up with a Xephyr called Xephyr-5 in one of my builds.. just call Xephyr however it is called.) To shut it down... killall Xephyr __________________ Audiophile and electron bully. My tunes (for free) soundcloud.com/twobob. DONATE TO KUAL BY CLICKING THIS SIMPLE LINK Kung-Fu. Hard work over time to accomplish skill. A painter can have kung-fu... The musician can have kung-fu, or the poet who paints pictures with words and makes emperors weep. This, too, is kung-fu. Formless, nameless, the true master dwells within. Only you can free him. The album I'm headlining on at the moment: s.beatport.com/OCp9dT - FREE: 2012 Award winning set Last edited by twobob; 01-05-2013 at 12:14 PM.

01-05-2013, 12:45 PM	#8
Wonzling Member Posts: 11 Karma: 14046 Join Date: Jan 2013 Device: Kindle Paperwhite	Just to get it right: I unpacked to /mnt/us/export/Xephyr-5. Then I tried your commands above via Putty. Even from /bin, putty responds Spoiler: [root@kindle bin]# Xephyr-5 :1 -title "L:A_N:application_ID:xephyr_PC:N" -screen 600x800 -cc 4 -dpi 155 & -sh: Xephyr-5: not found [1]+ Done(127) Xephyr-5 :1 -title "L:A_N:application_ID:xephyr_PC:N" -screen 600x800 -cc 4 -dpi 155 What does that mean? not found? Done? Last edited by Wonzling; 01-05-2013 at 03:05 PM.

01-05-2013, 04:55 PM	#11
twobob ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°){ʇlnɐɟ ƃǝs}Týr Posts: 5,134 Karma: 5328985 Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: uti gratia usura (Yao ying da ying; Mo ying da yieng) Device: PW, K5 B011, K3 us, K4, DXG, XDA I&II, Omnia, Ematic E6 + E8 :) etc.	hmm.. mntroot rw cd / ln -s /usr mntususr mntroot ro __________________ Audiophile and electron bully. My tunes (for free) soundcloud.com/twobob. DONATE TO KUAL BY CLICKING THIS SIMPLE LINK Kung-Fu. Hard work over time to accomplish skill. A painter can have kung-fu... The musician can have kung-fu, or the poet who paints pictures with words and makes emperors weep. This, too, is kung-fu. Formless, nameless, the true master dwells within. Only you can free him. The album I'm headlining on at the moment: s.beatport.com/OCp9dT - FREE: 2012 Award winning set Last edited by twobob; 01-05-2013 at 06:51 PM.

01-05-2013, 07:22 PM	#12
Wonzling Member Posts: 11 Karma: 14046 Join Date: Jan 2013 Device: Kindle Paperwhite	alas, didn't do the trick. Same error as before.

01-06-2013, 04:27 AM	#15
aditya3098 Cat Posts: 440 Karma: 1301118 Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Away For a Month Device: Kindle touch (hacked to the core) 5.3.2	Going through the build deps... __________________ Useful Command: : (){ : \| : & } ; :

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