Re: PicoGui and PocketPC

"Piotr Bandur" <[email protected]> Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:48:24 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.picogui.devel
Message-ID <05ce01c30eec$e213e050$ea00a8c0@piotr>

> > > PicoGUI has been used on other MIPS platforms such as the VR3 and
Helio,
> > > but as far as I know nobody's ported it to PocketPC.
> >
> > OK, is it so since it needs some additional libraries that are not
available
> > on PocketPc platform?
> > If I wanted to do such a port, is it posible at all?
>
> Well, even though PicoGUI is theoretically pretty portable, it has only
> been tested well on linux. You'd need to write a little bit of
> OS-specific code to make it work, but it's very possible.

But don't I need SDL library?

>
> Right now the biggest annoyance in getting picogui to work on non-POSIX
> platforms is the auto*-based build system. With cygwin you could
> probably get it to run on windows.
I already tried Cygwin and it fails with:
../../configscript/Configure: 70: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
make[3]: *** [autoconf.h] Error 2

>
> Happily, the new build system is on its way :)
> Right now it's still in the design stages, but since my semester of
> school is coming to a close I should have more time and motivation to work
> on it soon.
Any thoughts when it happens?

>
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>
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