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newman · 08-07-2015, 05:50 PM

So I built SkipStone with WebKit on x86 and it works great since it uses my system WebKitGTK

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Where do I get build environment in which I could build a binary for Kindle? I mean, if I build it locally the binary is just 180 KB (stripped) but is dynamically linked, i.e. it loads a LOT of other stuff. Looking at the Kindle SkipStone binary distributed here https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...=194390&page=1 it is also about 180 KB, that is: it's also dynamically linked (file says as well: skipstone: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, EABI5 version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib/ld-linux.so.3, for GNU/Linux 2.6.31, stripped).

From that follows, I guess, once SkipStone for Kindle installed it loads what's in Kindle already (either by Amazon, or by a third-party hack).

Where's the build environment?

08-07-2015, 05:50 PM	#12
newman homo viator Posts: 78 Karma: 252594 Join Date: May 2010 Device: Kindle DXi with 3.4.2 firmware, Kobo Glo HD	So I built SkipStone with WebKit on x86 and it works great since it uses my system WebKitGTK . Where do I get build environment in which I could build a binary for Kindle? I mean, if I build it locally the binary is just 180 KB (stripped) but is dynamically linked, i.e. it loads a LOT of other stuff. Looking at the Kindle SkipStone binary distributed here https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...=194390&page=1 it is also about 180 KB, that is: it's also dynamically linked (file says as well: skipstone: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, EABI5 version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib/ld-linux.so.3, for GNU/Linux 2.6.31, stripped). From that follows, I guess, once SkipStone for Kindle installed it loads what's in Kindle already (either by Amazon, or by a third-party hack). Where's the build environment?