Re: application development question

Hi,

Wade Guthrie wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm about to start porting a couple small programs that I did on the
> Palm to GPE/Familiar so I was wondering what environment most people use
> for application development.  The www.handhelds.org website suggests
> that the preferred methods are 1) native development, 2) using the
> compile farm, and 3) cross compilation.  Does Intimate need to be
> installed to do native development or can I use Familiar?  It seems that

I would suggest to develop applications on a PC, if you want to have an
environment similar to a PDA you can use Xoo. As soon as you want to test it on
a device you can use a cross toolchain and compile it for it.

> OpenEmbedded (which would be choice 3) is being adopted as a standard
> but I'm not sure if that's only for kernel development or for
> applications as well.

That's very useful to create installable packages, toolchains or distribution
images, but you usually won't use it for application development directly.

> As a separate question, does anyone use wxGPE (and, is it any good) or
> should I stick to GTK2?

If you are used to wxWidgets or want to develop for a windows platform in
parallel that might be interesting. If not use plain GTK or GTK with libglade.

Greetings

Florian

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