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« on: January 10, 2004, 07:29:33 pm »
Okay.  I finaly have the compat libs going which has let me install all my commercial software, but that only goes so far.  ANd I\'m working on setting up a compiler, but that still only goes so far.   There\'s a number of thing I still need, or at least I think I need them.  And I know others will find them usefull as well.

1.  irk, I cannot find any sourcecode for this.  Lot\'s of us use the mi keyboard and I think it would be great for everyone to cross compile this, but I can\'t find source.

2.  Tabmanager.  I don\'t know how many people use this, but I do and it\'s incredibly usefull.  Why such a function isn\'t built into opie I may never know, just seems dumb.  In any case, becausSame story, don\'t know where the source is.

3.  Sub applet.  this is another one of those that i just can\'t understand why it\'s not in the ROM.  It\'s small and mind boggilingly usefull.  And again, no source that i can see.

Help and solutions gladly accepted here.

Also, post other apps you\'d like to see compiled for the now OZ as i would imagine OZ 4 will use the same gcc when it finaly comes.  Last I heard they were 2/3 complete.

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« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2004, 09:53:34 pm »

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« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2004, 11:56:41 pm »
muchas gracias.  When I have a chance to finish figureing out the whole cross compiler mess I\'ll see if I can get these compilled and ipk\'d up.  If i can i\'ll put the somewhere usefull.

As for the flame, flame if you must.

I looked at the zsi instead of c.z.c and I actulay found the same link to tabmanager you posted last night.  However, last night the link gave an error saying the server was \"actively refusing\" my connection.  It\'s all good now though.

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« Reply #3 on: January 11, 2004, 12:52:04 am »

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« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2004, 08:08:22 am »
I\'m having a few problems installing the IRK download from the link above...

I\'ve renamed the file irk-0.10.0.ipk but when I try and install it I get

\"Cannot find package /mnt/cf/irk-0.10.0.ipk\" and

\"Could not open :/usr/lib/ipkg/info/irk-0.10.0.ipk.list\"

Any ideas what I might be doing differently or how to solve this?

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« Reply #5 on: January 27, 2004, 09:56:00 am »
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I\'m having a few problems installing the IRK download from the link above

No surprises there then as it\'s a source tarball, not a binary. Try looking here (http://www.killefiz.de/zaurus/showdetail.php?app=836)
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« Reply #6 on: January 27, 2004, 10:21:00 am »
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I\'m having a few problems installing the IRK download from the link above

No surprises there then as it\'s a source tarball, not a binary. Try looking here (http://www.killefiz.de/zaurus/showdetail.php?app=836)

Doh!  How obvious!

Unfortunately the link to Cwaig\'s site seems to be down.

VeeDubb, have you had any luck recompiling from source?

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« Reply #7 on: January 27, 2004, 10:35:33 am »
Sorry that previous post is by me.  I managed to log myself out.....not having a good day today. :-)
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« Reply #8 on: January 28, 2004, 03:23:29 am »
Nope, no luck compiling.  Inever even got a compiler set up.  To advanced for me, maybe some kind dev with free time will do this some day, but for now.......

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« Reply #9 on: January 28, 2004, 05:59:49 am »
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maybe some kind dev with free time will do this some day, but for now.......
Can\'t parse this sentence... what\'s a developer with free time ?  Haven\'t seen one in the last years
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« Reply #10 on: January 29, 2004, 08:50:57 pm »
LOL, I know, that\'s why I haven\'t bohered to push the issue with anybody.  It\'s just sad that a ROM as great as your\'s can\'t take advantage of some of the most usefull Zaurus software in existence, namely subapplet and irk.  Frankly, I can\'t imagine why on earth ANY developer would ever release a rom for the Z based on qtopia or opie and not include subapplet.  

I can understand the irk not being included as not enough people use them to take up the memory, but enough people use them that I\'m amaized nobody has compiled for the new gcc yet.

Oh well.

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« Reply #11 on: January 30, 2004, 05:53:58 am »
Point taken
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« Reply #12 on: January 30, 2004, 06:58:58 am »
Has lirc been compiled for OZ 3.3.6pre1? This is needed to compile irk (I just found out - not having any reason to use either).

I also need to grab the source for libpcap before I can compile lirc, and kernel headers......

Should there be issues with tabmanager and subapplet? I\'ve compiled both and they fail looking for libq-something, which is the expected behaviour, I just need a quick scan of the Opie mailing list to see what I\'m supposed to link against and I\'ll finish them off.

I might also learn how to package while I\'m at it ;-)


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« Reply #13 on: January 31, 2004, 03:13:28 am »
I\'m afraid that I can\'t help you there, though I seem to recal lirc being int he feed, you should double check.  I\'m very exceited that you think you can get this done.  I fyou do let me know.  I\'d be happy with a tarball and manual extraction as long as the directory structure inside is set up right.

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« Reply #14 on: January 31, 2004, 06:35:47 am »
It\'s not very difficult, assuming you have a Linux box you would be able to do it just as easily as me (and as you want these things you\'d probably be more motivated too ;-) )

Step by step:

Grab OZ toolchain: http://www.openzaurus.org/official/toolcha...s-3.3.2.tar.bz2

Read the README in the same directory: http://www.openzaurus.org/official/toolchain/README

Extract this toolchain:

# cd /
# tar -jxvf /path/to/toolchain/cross-3.3.2.tar.bz2

Then before you try cross compiling source the following file ($ source dev-arm-oz.sh)

dev-arm-OZ.sh script (just the stuff between the lines)
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#!/bin/bash

CC=arm-linux-gcc
CXX=arm-linux-g++
CCX=arm-linux-gcc
CXXX=arm-linux-g++
COMPILER=arm-linux-gcc
LINKER=arm-linux-g++

PATH=/opt/cross/bin:/opt/cross/arm-linux/bin:$PATH

PS1=\'!OZ-dev-armu@h:w$ \'

export PATH CC CXX CCX CXXX COMPILER LINKER G77 F77
echo \"Altered environment for OZ GCC 3.3.2 Development\"
========================================

Nb. Check that the path in $PATH actually exists (it may need a /3.3.2 added in under /cross), I don\'t use this particular toolchain so I\'m going from memory here.

To do opie stuff (and this is probably not the way it should be done) I downloaded the Sharp ROM Qtopia header files and added the QPEPATH and QTPATH (I think those names are correct) to the above script.

Anyway if I\'ve got some time this weekend I\'ll try compiling those other bits.


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