Re: PicoGui and PocketPC

On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 09:48:24AM +0200, Piotr Bandur wrote:
> 
> 
> > > > 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?

SDL is just one of many ways PicoGUI can display video and receive input
events. You could choose to use SDL, or you could write a new driver for
win32/PocketPC.

> 
> >
> > 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

Did you try re-running autogen.sh?

> 
> >
> > 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?

Not sure how fast the coding will go since I haven't really gotten into
it yet, but if I had to give a guess I'd say a month.

--Micah

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