Building squeak for a linux handheld

[Yoshiki Ohshima]

  James,

  Incidentally, the group of Noury Bouraqadi <bouraqadi at 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
> 
> 
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