Rockbox for MeeGoo (Nokia N9)

[paulheu]

Bouht this phone and love it.. I guess getting Rockbox to run on it would not be that hard (or would it?) so as I have a basic understanding of programming I figured I might give this a try if only to learn.

I would apreciate a basic layout of what to do/figure out to get started. I have a full development enviroment on Ubunto where I used to build my (patched) Android builds..

Any help, hints and pointers appreciated..

Paul

[saratoga]

Meego is some linux thing right?  I guess setup the devtools for it, get SDL working on it, then try compiling the rockbox sim. 

[nick_p]

Might be also worth looking at the Maemo (Nokia N900) port;

http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/MaemoPort

[mtg]

I will have a look at this by the end of the week. I don't think that it will be too hard.

[paulheu]

Cool, right now I am way too busy and a quick peek told me I will need tl sit down and sort this out.. once the dev enviroment is up it seems to be no too hard to get going... We'll see how things go..

And dmn.. the N9 is one sexy phone..

[paulheu]

Well.. this is all a bit above my paygrade.. 

So sad as it may seem I will have to hope someone will pick his up and for now I will have to do with what I have..

P

[paulheu]

Got around to installing te source on the image from the wiki, added all dependencies, but when I try to install the arm source package from maemo.org I get an error saying it's not compatibel..

I figure I need some sort of toolchain but could use some help here.. Would like to try and get this to work as it seems if I get the dependencies right it should not be all that hard..


So any help would be appreciated..

P

[paulheu]

From Wiki:
Download and install scratchbox for maemo 5: http://maemovmware.garage.maemo.org/2nd_edition/
Copy/mount rockbox source code inside scratchbox

Check on download and install the image, but how do I copy/mount the source inside scratchbox..

Probably dumb oversight, but anyway..

Any help appreciated..

[paulheu]

OK.. probably just me being stupid, but I seem to be missing something..

The wiki says (for te meamo development image):
Copy/mount rockbox source code inside scratchbox

I could use some help with this..

I'll get back to waiting for someone to get the same bright idea otherwise..

[Chronon]

If you're looking for some guidance it might be worthwhile to drop in on the #rockbox channel on freenode.

[gevaerts]

The maemo instructions assume some familiarity with general maemo development

[paulheu]

I understand that.. but I can be a quick study..

[mtg]

Hi,

unfortunately, I did not find time earlier to play around with RaaA and the Nokia N9. However, tonight I started to try some basic things. The instructions on how to set up the scratchbox development environment for the Nokia N9 can be found here. With that you should be able to get into scratchbox,

Next (from now one everything from within scratchbox), one needs to install libsdl:

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apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev
Having done that, I got the maemo rockbox sources from here. I modified the configure script to exclude the sanity checks if and which maemo libs are installed. This has been done to just try a Maemo-based compilation. In the configure script I selected then the N900 build. After that I I tried to compile. Without the file modifications the process now looks like:

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git clone http://repo.or.cz/w/maemo-rb.git/
cd maemo-rb
# edit tools/configure to exclude sanity checks in maemocc()
mkdir build
cd build
../tools/configure
make dep
make

The compilation generates an error when trying to access libplayback which isn't available for MeeGo:

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CC firmware/target/hosted/maemo/pcm-gstreamer.c
/home/tom/maemo-rb/firmware/target/hosted/maemo/pcm-gstreamer.c:44: fatal error: libplayback/playback.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make: *** [/home/tom/maemo-rb/build/firmware/target/hosted/maemo/pcm-gstreamer.o] Error 1

I have no idea (yet), what to use in MeeGo instead of this, but I will play around with it the upcoming days. Suggestions and hints are very welcome.

Cheers,
Tom

(I had to create this post, since it got accidentally deleted.)

[paulheu]

Thanks for that.. I moved to Windowsphone (Lumia 800) myself however so I guess that excludes me from RockBox.. for now..

[paulheu]

With Meego now gone from Nokia and a new startup continuing the work with new devices coming it might be interesting to see if they would be interested to bring in RockBox as their default audioplayer.

Please check out @jollamobile on twitter..


No rush, just do it _now_ ;^)