[Gpe-list] [Gpe] Porting to new device

[Philippe De Swert]

Hi Xavier,

On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 09:58 +0200, Xevi Serra wrote:
> I’ve been playing with AT91SAM9261-EK and I’ve compiled the U-BOOT,
> kernel and I made some applications. But I want to run a GUI and a
> video player. Can you give me some advice how to port gpe to this
> platform? I have a lot of doubts with libraries and dependencies. 
> 
Well if you have that running the extra things you need are X, matchbox,
glib and GTK+. The rest of GPE basically builds on these components. For
certain applications you might need to resolve more dependencies like
dbus, libmimedir, ..

There is a dependency map at
http://dominion.kabel.utwente.nl/koen/pda/files/GPE-dependencymap.pdf

The recommended way to build everything is to use OE (openembedded). For
more info check www.openembedded.org. OE already supports the
at91sam9263ek. I do not know how similar this board is but it might make
it easy to build for yours starting from that.
> 
> Thank u, I will be glad to help free software community!!

Well contributions are more than welcome!

Also take note that the GPE project has moved and is to be found on
gpe.linuxtogo.org. Due to issues with the hosting there is still a GPE
page on handhelds.org, so we apologize for the confusion.

Cheers,

Philippe