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hydroo:
According to http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/HowtoWritePlugins I have to make;make install the whole simulator to be able to test my plugin.

Now this takes a bit long. Is there no other way?

regards

saratoga:
You could remove other plugins from the build list, but you still need to build rockbox at the same time.

hydroo:
I already did that.
And I am using ccache and whatnot and am running linux natively anyways. So there isn't much to speed up I guess.
~20-30secs is just ... well :(.

It encourages to read twice before testing.

So is this mandatory(by design) or just bad Makefiles?
(I am pretty new to this. Made my helloworld yesterday)

thanks for the quick response.

regards

saratoga:

--- Quote from: hydroo on January 16, 2008, 01:23:17 PM ---I already did that.

So is this mandatory(by design) or just bad Makefiles?

--- End quote ---

Plugins cannot work without rockbox, so theres no sense in letting you build them without it.

hydroo:
Because they are linked statically?

I am pretty good at c, unix/linux and stuff. So you can give me details :P. I am curious.

Rephrased:
Why can I not build and install the simulator separately from the plugins.
/Every plugin for itself. (e.g. by specifying the plugin as a target)

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