iLiad now in the wiki: iliad unofficial toolchain

[Antartica]

Hi All!

I've started a page in the wiki with the instructions to install the iliad unofficial toolchain. The page is here:

https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Ilia...cial_toolchain

And the toolchain here:

http://projects.mobileread.com/iliad...ts/toolchains/

I'll complete the documentation as I have time, as the page is only a bit more than a placeholder (I've omitted scratchbox configuration, and also omitted the instructions on how a windows user can install debian on vmware...)

Hope is useful ;-)

[jæd]

Originally Posted by Antartica

I'll complete the documentation as I have time, as the page is only a bit more than a placeholder (I've omitted scratchbox configuration, and also omitted the instructions on how a windows user can install debian on vmware...)

Doesn't Cygwin provide gcc, etc...? Probably quicker/easier/less resources...

[Adam B.]

Great tutorial, as someone who's new to development and porting (but not necessarily Linux), it'll help me get started with a few projects I'd like to see ported.

I've used vmware pretty extensively on windows and linux. I can add that part to the tutorial if you'd like.

[jæd]

Originally Posted by Antartica

I'll complete the documentation as I have time, as the page is only a bit more than a placeholder (I've omitted scratchbox configuration, and also omitted the instructions on how a windows user can install debian on vmware...)

Perhaps a section on a test compile, and the likely expected outputs so the reader knows everything installed ok...?

[Antartica]

Originally Posted by Adam B.

Great tutorial, as someone who's new to development and porting (but not necessarily Linux), it'll help me get started with a few projects I'd like to see ported.

I've used vmware pretty extensively on windows and linux. I can add that part to the tutorial if you'd like.

I gladly accept

I've added a link from the howto pointing to this page:

https://wiki.mobileread.com/index.php...re&action=edit

If you can fill it with the pertinent contents... :-D

Thanks!

[Adam B.]

Originally Posted by Antartica

I gladly accept

I've added a link from the howto pointing to this page:

https://wiki.mobileread.com/index.php...re&action=edit

If you can fill it with the pertinent contents... :-D

Thanks!

No problem. I'll setup my test build environment this evening on my home pc. I'll be sure to take screenshots and make detailed notes.

[Alexander Turcic]

Great tutorial, Antartica. I know a lot of people were looking for this info!

[Antartica]

Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic

Great tutorial, Antartica. I know a lot of people were looking for this info!

Thanks. :-).

And for everyone interested: I've finished documenting how to compile and pack programs for the iliad. See it here:

https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Ilia...cial_toolchain

I've also updated the packing helper scripts in the repository:

http://projects.mobileread.com/iliad...ts/toolchains/

[scotty1024]

Antartica, looking pretty sweet!

[Antartica]

I've completed the wiki page about using the unofficial toolchain with the instructions for testing your apps using VNC for emulating the Iliad display.

Here it is:

https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Ilia...ions_using_VNC

Can someone test if the instructions are reasonable complete and/or understandable? Thanks

[Mythago]

Originally Posted by Antartica

I've completed the wiki page about using the unofficial toolchain with the instructions for testing your apps using VNC for emulating the Iliad display.

Nice! Thanks for creating that page and encouraging iLiad development!

Originally Posted by Antartica

http://https://wiki.mobileread.com/wi...ions_using_VNC

There's an extra http: at the beginning of the link that should be removed.

Originally Posted by Antartica

Can someone test if the instructions are reasonable complete and/or understandable?

It's understandable but I don't know about complete since I haven't had a chance to try it. So there's half an answer at least.

-Mythago

[kapoira]

i have a problem i'm trying to put a scratchbos in my ubuntu 7.04 64 bits

and when i try to install the scratchbox, these stop me....

omega@omega-desktop:~/Instalaciones/iliad$ sudo dpkg -i scratchbox-toolchain-arm-softfloat-gcc3.4.2-glibc2.3.3_20061031-2_i386.deb
dpkg: error al procesar scratchbox-toolchain-arm-softfloat-gcc3.4.2-glibc2.3.3_20061031-2_i386.deb (--install):
la arquitectura del paquete (i386) no corresponde con la del sistema (amd64)
Se encontraron errores al procesar:

that he don't like the i386 package and wants a amd64...

how i can solve this to start to port programs to the iliad, thanks to all

[Mythago]

I've got Debian setup in VMWare, have installed scratchbox etc. but now have a question and a problem:
1) On step 11 (Install the helper scripts) the dependencies-helper creates a dependencies-helper sub-directory for the archive contents so that on step 3 of "Compiling a sample program" the line ../dl-and-install -u xmhexagons can't find the dl-and-install script.
So, are the dependencies-helper files meant to be in a sub-directory, or should that Step 3 line be updated to point to the dependencies-helper sub-directory?

2) When I use the dl-and-install script I get the following:

Locating the package name...
Looking up packages.debian.org
Unable to locate remote host packages.debian.org
Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host.

lynx: Can't access startfile http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?version=testing&arch=arm&case=insensitive&word=xmhexagons&searchmode=searchword

Problem locating the package, exiting...

It seems to have a problem with accessing the network. wget works fine from within scratchbox. And I can ping packages.debian.org from outside of scratchbox in a regular terminal.

Any ideas?

-Mythago

[Antartica]

Originally Posted by kapoira

i have a problem i'm trying to put a scratchbos in my ubuntu 7.04 64 bits

and when i try to install the scratchbox, these stop me....

omega@omega-desktop:~/Instalaciones/iliad$ sudo dpkg -i scratchbox-toolchain-arm-softfloat-gcc3.4.2-glibc2.3.3_20061031-2_i386.deb
dpkg: error al procesar scratchbox-toolchain-arm-softfloat-gcc3.4.2-glibc2.3.3_20061031-2_i386.deb (--install):
la arquitectura del paquete (i386) no corresponde con la del sistema (amd64)
Se encontraron errores al procesar:

that he don't like the i386 package and wants a amd64...

how i can solve this to start to port programs to the iliad, thanks to all

If you have 32 bit support installed, you can try this alternative:
1. Do the following to install the required deps:
# dpkg --info scratchbox-toolchain-arm-softfloat-gcc3.4.2-glibc2.3.3_20061031-2_i386.deb | grep Depends | cut -d : -f 2 | tr , ' ' | sed "s/(.*)//g" > sc-deps
# apt-get install `cat sc-deps`
2. Use alien to convert the package into a tgz:
# apt-get install alien
# alien --to-tgz scratchbox-toolchain-arm-softfloat-gcc3.4.2-glibc2.3.3_20061031-2_i386.deb
# mkdir t
# cd t
# alien ../scratchbox*toolchain*tgz
3. Then continue with the steps in the HOWTO page.

[Antartica]

Originally Posted by Mythago

I've got Debian setup in VMWare, have installed scratchbox etc. but now have a question and a problem:
1) On step 11 (Install the helper scripts) the dependencies-helper creates a dependencies-helper sub-directory for the archive contents so that on step 3 of "Compiling a sample program" the line ../dl-and-install -u xmhexagons can't find the dl-and-install script.
So, are the dependencies-helper files meant to be in a sub-directory, or should that Step 3 line be updated to point to the dependencies-helper sub-directory?

Yes, it's an error.I fix the wiki. I've added a

ln -s dependencies-helper/*.sh .

to the instructions in the wiki, so now they should be in the correct location(home of the user).

Originally Posted by Mythago

2) When I use the dl-and-install script I get the following:

Locating the package name...
Looking up packages.debian.org
Unable to locate remote host packages.debian.org
Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host.

lynx: Can't access startfile http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?version=testing&arch=arm&case=insensitive&word=xmhexagons&searchmode=searchword

Problem locating the package, exiting...

It seems to have a problem with accessing the network. wget works fine from within scratchbox. And I can ping packages.debian.org from outside of scratchbox in a regular terminal.

Any ideas?

-Mythago

It seems that the problem is that the DNS is not configured in the scratchbox environment. Do a
sbox$ echo nameserver the_ip_of_your_dns >> /etc/resolv.conf
substituing the the_ip_of_your_dns
with the IP of the DNS you use. For example
sbox$ echo nameserver 80.58.32.33 >> /etc/resolv.conf
If that solves it, I would have to update the wiki for that, too O:-).