Preface: I have ordered my N800 yesterday, it should be shipped to me on Monday or Tuesday. Thus I have no practical experience with the n800 but I am very experienced with linux on x86. Reading this forum and searching the www I found out:

- There are some really experienced developers around on this forum.
- The mozilla-based browser supports extensions http://browser.garage.maemo.org/#addons-pane
- The sourcecode of Google Gears is availible http://code.google.com/p/google-gears/

SO: WHY HAS NOBODY TRIED TO COMPILE GOOGLE GEARS FOR THE N800/N770???

Will this work with Opera 8.5? The documenation doesn't say it supports Opera. Don't know about minimo (a miniature firefox), but given that it is stripped down, it could be they stripped out the Javascript extension which enables google-gears.

Let us know if you get it working!

Craig...

My intention was to motivate somebody to try it, because it seems to be posible.
Myself I did not have much luck with the Maemo SDK

You are not alone on that^ subject.

I am going mad!

The gears sourcecode includes some binaries (I think they have something to do with the mozilla-integration) which cannnot be run in scratchbox, but the scratchbox-compiler cannot be run outside scratchbox.

Why isn't there an arm-compiler, that runs under x86???

GCC is your friend.

But how? Which options/flags do I use?

Google is also your friend.

With all due respect: Do you think I haven't searched google???

I think the poster may be referring to a gcc cross-compiler. It would have to be a cross-compiler for armel then. I used to set up cross-compilers in the past (by actually building them myself), but I wouldn't say it's for the casual user. But, before you go ahead with all this, what kind of binaries did you find in the google gears source? If this is a) something necessary for getting it to work, and b) x86-code, and c) can't be re-compiled from existing source, then you're out of luck in any case.