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Hello,
I'm having really fun since I bought my n900 (just a week ago!). I'm studying engineering and I found a lot of useful applications for n900 I've never seen before on other «phones», like octave and gnuplot.
Now I'd like to port one of the most useful app I have on my pc: xfoil.
I'ts an opensource software available for unix/win/mac users.
http://web.mit.edu/drela/Public/web/xfoil/
Sice I'm new on unix systems, could anyone help me to port this application?
Thanks,
Ale152.

I'm not new in unix's, but anyway every platform has its own issues in development and porting.

As i'm also now interested in porting some apps to maemo5 on n900, and also newbie(only week with this phone). I want to point you (by the way xfoil is also interesting for me ).

So you definitely should read:
http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/...K_Installation

SDK installation process is trivial if you installing on Debian system.

And then, i think you need to read:
http://wiki.maemo.org/Port_an_existing_Debian_package

then go to the debian xfoil page:
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/xfoil

here we can see that(AFAIK) we have only problem with libgfortran3 package. Its unavailable in maemo repos.

I tried to install both packages in a straight way and despite dependency errors, xfoil started and seems to work. Maybe its enough to you for work, but i must to say better will be if you try to port them to maemo.

And because it works that way, i think it will not be super hard task.

P.S. I think second way will be install easy-debian package and work with xfoil in chroot.

How did you get it working?
I'm trying to compile it just reading the README, but I have a problem with the fortran compiler.
I tried to install it just typing apt-get install fort77, but it can't install some dependencies (f2c and cpp).
Moreover, I noticed I have no "make" function, on the n900, and it's not very easy to install it...

I tried using Easy Debian, and it just works perfectly