Hey, one of my friends recently got a N800 and just wants to know what is required to start making applications on maemo. Im assuming he will need a SDK and some sort of compiler? Any links would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
When setting up maemo SDK, the hardware and software requirements are as follows:
* Intel compatible x86 processor, 500 MHz or faster
* 256 MB RAM or more
* 2 GB free hard disk space
* Linux OS (Debian or Ubuntu are recommended, but other fairly recent distributions should also work)
The reason I suggested Python is that you don't need a complicated dev setup : with pygame or pyGtk/Eagle you can basically code anywhere, on your Window box or Mac, and just copy things over to the tablet and run them. Hildonization comes free.
For C/C++ you do need a cross-compiling environment as described above, under Linux. But you don't need to dedicate and install a computer for that : there are ready-made VMWare images you can run in the free player on XP.
Alright, I found an old IDE-100 5GB hardrive and successfuly installed Linux ver10.
Can anyone provide me with some direct download links with all the tools I need . I seem to be confused on what/where I exactly need to install. From what I have read it seems to be Scratchbox 1.0.7, cs2005q3.2-glibc toolchains and SDK rootstrap.
EDIT: Seems I have downloaded non of the recomended versions of linux. Should this be a problem, because I cant seem to download any installable files?
