Re: Fwd: Building under a recent OS
Michael Obenland <[email protected]> Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:29:52 +0200
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --===============1088350184907565660== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------080603050607080703060603" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------080603050607080703060603 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Nice. I actually didn't know that the list was still active. Did nothing with Picogui for a looooong time but I remember it was a nice system. I am really intrested in you advance with Pico and an up-to-date Linux. Regards, Michael Am 15.04.2013 14:13, schrieb Edward Robbins: > Hi all, > I guess that now, 10 years later, this list is pretty dead (like the > website). I know picogui from my psion days, and I decided to use > picogui for some development work because it's still much faster than > anything else out there, and when you need a gui that can run multiple > apps on a 150MHz ARM9 machine with 32MB RAM you need something faster > than X windows, and something that doesn't need any real graphics > capabilities. Being able to run multiple SDL programs, and already > having a terminal app, are also big wins. Looking around, picogui is > still really the only thing that fits the bill for this without > investing serious amounts of time... why did you give up on it!? > > Anyway, I spent most of yesterday hacking, and managed to get the 0.46 > build system and code updated to the extent that it now builds on a > modern OS. Unfortunately there are 64-bit compatibility issues with > themec, which I still need to look into, and I think that maybe the > linux framebuffer has changed since picogui's heyday (when I run the > framebuffer servers I get random looking text all over the screen - > I'd be interested if anyone knows anything about fixing this). But the > x11 driver seems to work just fine. > > I'm going to put the updated code onto github soon, and then look into > the x64 issues, then the framebuffer, then hopefully I can start > writing the apps I want, and getting it to build with an ARM cross > compiler. I don't think I'll actually be improving the code unless I > run into bugs, but thought someone out there might be interested anyway. > > Cheers, > Ed > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced > analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building > apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use > our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! > http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter > > > _______________________________________________ > Pgui-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pgui-devel --------------080603050607080703060603 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Nice. I actually didn't know that the list was still active. Did nothing with Picogui for a looooong time but I remember it was a nice system. I am really intrested in you advance with Pico and an up-to-date Linux.<br> <br> Regards,<br> <br> Michael<br> <br> Am 15.04.2013 14:13, schrieb Edward Robbins:<br> </div> <blockquote cite="mid:CALVXH_or5rv3PEUd5dneMzL2d8bOAfLz7TaZ1OvMaFMbFaD69A@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <div dir="ltr">Hi all,<br> <div class="gmail_quote"> <div dir="ltr"> <div>I guess that now, 10 years later, this list is pretty dead (like the website). I know picogui from my psion days, and I decided to use picogui for some development work because it's still much faster than anything else out there, and when you need a gui that can run multiple apps on a 150MHz ARM9 machine with 32MB RAM you need something faster than X windows, and something that doesn't need any real graphics capabilities. Being able to run multiple SDL programs, and already having a terminal app, are also big wins. Looking around, picogui is still really the only thing that fits the bill for this without investing serious amounts of time... why did you give up on it!?</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Anyway, I spent most of yesterday hacking, and managed to get the 0.46 build system and code updated to the extent that it now builds on a modern OS. Unfortunately there are 64-bit compatibility issues with themec, which I still need to look into, and I think that maybe the linux framebuffer has changed since picogui's heyday (when I run the framebuffer servers I get random looking text all over the screen - I'd be interested if anyone knows anything about fixing this). But the x11 driver seems to work just fine.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>I'm going to put the updated code onto github soon, and then look into the x64 issues, then the framebuffer, then hopefully I can start writing the apps I want, and getting it to build with an ARM cross compiler. I don't think I'll actually be improving the code unless I run into bugs, but thought someone out there might be interested anyway.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Cheers,<br> Ed</div> </div> </div> <br> </div> <br> <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> <br> <pre wrap="">------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. 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