Developing on the N900 itself ?
 

Hi There,

I'm a linux developer and new to Maemo5. Will receive my N900, hopefully.

I've successful installed the SDK and have some fun.

Maybe a dump question. Do we have an option to install
a development environment on the N900 itself ?

So i am able to compile software on the device itself ?

Best regards

Sacha

Re: Developing on the N900 itself ?
 

There's always python...

I'd be interested in developing that way. The dev environment takes an awful lot of space, though.

Re: Developing on the N900 itself ?
 

I develop for Mer, on a smartq5 with Mer installed, so it might be possible for Maemo as well. I think the easiest way to start is to create a large enough ext2/3 filesystem on the device (can even be done in a loop device on the FAT32 partition), copy a completely installed SDK filesystem from there, and chrooting into it. There might be some work needed for getting the arm binaries of the compiler.

Re: Developing on the N900 itself ?
 

I assume vi is available, right. Lots of things could be done with straight Python code, especially if there is a port of the ncurses package. But, yes, for GUI development you are better off doing that on the desktop. Could be fun though.

Re: Developing on the N900 itself ?
 

There are people who develop right on the device itself - apparently they had a long commute. :)

vi is available and if you don't like python you have perl on the device as well.

Re: Developing on the N900 itself ?
 

And if you write shell scripts, like me, developing on-device is pretty much a requirement!

I've successfully packaged the fremantle version of my easy-chroot package on-device using py2deb, and then uploaded to the autobuilder on-device, too!

I use leafpad for text file editing.

Re: Developing on the N900 itself ?
 

leafpad you sissy, learn vi, it will take you 15 minutes and youll always have an editor on any uinix system, or at least 99% of them

Re: Developing on the N900 itself ?
 

Yes, please see sbrsh documentation.

Re: Developing on the N900 itself ?
 

On diablo you can install gcc and a few other tools too, so c and c++ development are also probably quite do-able for on-n900 hacking.

Re: Developing on the N900 itself ?
 

<religious flame>

Someone has just uploaded qemacs as well to extras-devel, so you don't have to learn that crazy modal editor vi. :P

</religious flame>