[LoneTech]

The more I read, the more I like PocketBook service. I was intimidated at first by finding only cyrillic conversation at the pocketbook-free project, but at this point, I have ordered a 903 and gotten the inkView demo in the SDK to run. I would like to participate in documenting development for the PocketBooks in English.

For my first little tip: The SDK apps look for some resources, such as fonts, in a bunch of places - /ebrmain and /mnt/ext1 among them. Symlinking the ebrmain directory included in the SDK to /ebrmain did the trick. This is probably mentioned in the readme, but I couldn't read it.

Next would be figuring out how to compile a program. Perhaps this sort of thing could be collected on the mobileread wiki? Considering the devhub, it looks on topic.

By the way, it feels clumsy dealing with winelib. I understand inkview was written with win32 APIs for emulation, but it would be easier for us GNU/Linux developers with a more native approach, such as SDL. My initial attempt at building grays hit a winegcc not found.

Second add: Another step complete! After installing ia32-libs-dev, libc6-dev-i386, libwine-dev, and lib32z1-dev, grays compiled with a simple make. Unlike the precompiled inkdemo, the freshly built program expected the whole SDK in /usr/local/pocketbook. Looking good!

Third add: Finding keynames-nanox.xml suggests that inkView may use the win32-like MicroWindows API. In that case using winelib represents much less effort than using SDL, and it wasn't that hard to install libwine-dev, so don't bother changing that part.