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Originally Posted by bran
Hi Everyone,
I have a DR800S. I am personally running a debian linux sid distribution (very up to date, refresh about every 4 to five days)). I am also an experienced programmer. The installation instructions for the dev environment really assumes that you use ubuntu which I do not. Is there documentation available that helps with a debian sid installation of the dev environment including the qemu? I would really like to contribute to the communal effort to keep this device alive.
This would be my first foray into cross-compliing and qemu emulation. I realize I need help. I could try to setup an ubuntu in a virtualbox, but I that is emulation in emulation. I believe that is not the way to go. My current sid is way beyond the suggested ubuntu platform
Can anyone give me some hints?
Regards Bran
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IMHO the best option is to use the same OS version IREX people recommends. Install a virtual machine for the development. And don't forget to read the doc at [1] carefully.
This way you don't mesh your own computer and even you can save states (snapshots) and recover if something goes wrong.
There is a VMware Player/WorkStation image you can download, search this forum, but you'll have to update it because it contains an old version of IREX SDK.
Anyway, if you have a minimum Linux experience I recommend to install a new vm or to download an already-made virtual machine and install the SDK yourself; it's really easy. Look at [2] for some sources.
Btw, I'm using a VirtualBox vm, it works perfectly.
Some of us have some draft documents about DR development, maybe we could polish and publish them finally...
[1]
http://developer.irexnet.com/pub/iOn/SDK/
[2]
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...81&postcount=3
PS: welcome onboard
