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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 ?

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There's always python...

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

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Originally Posted by Flandry View Post
There's always python...

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

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<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

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