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bobmor99 · 09-07-2011, 06:57 PM

Greetings from an IT geezer and Kindle 3 (K3) hacker uber-newb.

I recently bought a K3 with the idea that an e-ink display would be great in the cockpit of my sailboat. There's a very high quality, open source chart plotter application (opencpn.org) that I'd like to use in direct sunlight. It runs on Linux (and Windows and Mac) and uses the wxWidgets and GTK libraries.

My K3 is jailbroken and I can telnet to it. Thanks to many for this.

In this post I'd like to ask how to to go about compiling the opencpn source for the K3. I have Scratchbox setup on a PC and have managed to compile and run Hello World on the K3. The output goes to the PC's telnet session. (Lots of knowledge holes here...) (I am also able to recompile the openCPN source and run it on my Linux desktop.)

I hope I've conveyed my level of expertise.

Is it a bad idea to try to port a "massive application" to the K3?
If not, what might be the main hurdles?
Should I focus on the K3's missing libraries?

Many thanks in advance.

09-07-2011, 06:57 PM	#1
bobmor99 Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2011 Device: kindle 3	OpenCPN on Kindle 3 Greetings from an IT geezer and Kindle 3 (K3) hacker uber-newb. I recently bought a K3 with the idea that an e-ink display would be great in the cockpit of my sailboat. There's a very high quality, open source chart plotter application (opencpn.org) that I'd like to use in direct sunlight. It runs on Linux (and Windows and Mac) and uses the wxWidgets and GTK libraries. My K3 is jailbroken and I can telnet to it. Thanks to many for this. In this post I'd like to ask how to to go about compiling the opencpn source for the K3. I have Scratchbox setup on a PC and have managed to compile and run Hello World on the K3. The output goes to the PC's telnet session. (Lots of knowledge holes here...) (I am also able to recompile the openCPN source and run it on my Linux desktop.) I hope I've conveyed my level of expertise. Is it a bad idea to try to port a "massive application" to the K3? If not, what might be the main hurdles? Should I focus on the K3's missing libraries? Many thanks in advance.