Exercises, Environment
- Scratchbox
- Esbox
- Running programs in emulator
About scratchbox
- Scratchbox is a cross-compilation environement, mainly for ARM development, but not limited to it
- Creates virtual file system view for user and target (ARM, X86), by massive amount on symbolic links
- For python development cross-compiling is not usually needed, but virtual scratchbox runtime system is needed.
Using scratchbox
two choices:
- processor emulation (using qemu)
- remote execution on actual device using sbrsh (over USB networking)
> newgrp sbox # optional > /scratchbox/login [sbox:]> sb-menu
selecting target in Eclipse
* To be able to use the target in Eclipse, it must be selected: Window => Preferences => Esbox => Target
Running Xephyr X server
host> Xephyr :2 -host-cursor -screen 800x480x16 -dpi 96 -ac -extension Composite
or use Eclipse toolbar (X)
Starting Maemo into Xephyr
[sbox] > af-sb-init.sh start
Stopping Maemo:
[sbox-SDK_ARMEL:] > af-sb-init.sh stop
or control maemo in Eclipse (m)
