James,
Incidentally, the group of Noury Bouraqadi bouraqadi@ensm-douai.fr announced (to squeak-dev mailing list) that they managed to compile the VM for Windows mobile lately. You may want to make a contact with him.
-- Yoshiki
At Tue, 04 Apr 2006 02:23:29 +0100, James Fenn wrote:
Hi all. I'm currently trying to build a working squeak vm for the htc-universal phone. For those of you who don't know, it's a large clamshell phone/pda with a 640 by 480 touchscreen, a 520Mhz pxa270 processor, 64M of ram, a full qwerty keyboard, GSM/GPRS/UTMS, wifi and all sorts of gubbins... A nice machine for a bit of squeaking.
I have used an old squeak vm under Windows Mobile and it is possible to use a full morphic environment albeit a little slow however software compiled for earlier editions of windowsCE run very slowly on the latest version of the OS and I think/hope a linux port would do a lot better.
The linux port is underway and drivers have been made for the screen, keyboard, sound and a dodgy touchscreen driver. Progress has of late been quite rapid but there is still much to do. A library is being worked on to abstract the phone functions for the various linux ports to windows mobile phones.
My fantasy is to have a squeak environment running on the linux framebuffer with plugins for the phone functions and the various other facilities. However, I am a terrible C coder and my progress will be painfully slow so I apologise in advance for the dumb sounding questions I am sure to ask.
I have managed to do a first compile of the 3.7-7 source. I had to do some ugly hacking of the configure.ac that I found on a webpage about building squeak for the gumstix. I'm not sure whether this was the right thing to do but at least it made it possible to compile. The resulting binary gets as far as drawing a white screen with a mouse pointer in the centre using the vm-display-fbdev driver. Does anyone have any good tests to suggest to see if the vm is alive? Perhaps using the vm-display-null driver.
I would like to use tslib on the handhelds.org site to tack on touchscreen support in the vm-display-fbdev however I'm finding the code a little hard to understand *blush* as there are no comments at all.
Thanks for listening. Any help, advice or pointers would be greatly appreciated.
James