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| -rw-r--r-- | README | 23 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/sb2.1 | 9 |
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@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ You need git to work with sbox2, get it from http://git.or.cz/. Clone the scratchbox 2 repository: $ git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/sbox2 +or if behind a corporate firewall, use http: +$ git clone http://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/sbox2.git For x86_64 hosts Scratchbox 2 automatically builds both i386 and x86_64 versions of libsb2.so, for this reason you need @@ -36,9 +38,10 @@ $ cd sbox2 $ ./autogen.sh $ make install prefix=$HOME/sb2 -You need Qemu for cpu-transparency. As of 2008-10, the SVN version of qemu -seems to work pretty well even with modern codesourcery toolchains (2008q3). -Get the latest Qemu with: +You need Qemu for cpu-transparency. As of 2009-03, qemu-0.10.1 seems to work +pretty well. + +Latest Qemu can be retrieved with: $ svn co svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk qemu $ cd qemu @@ -63,8 +66,7 @@ To complete sb2 target setup: $ mkdir $HOME/buildroot $ cd $HOME/buildroot $ cp -a $HOME/arm-2008q3/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/libc/{lib,etc,usr} . -$ $HOME/sb2/bin/sb2-init -c /abs/path/to/qemu-arm my_target \ - arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc +$ $HOME/sb2/bin/sb2-init my_target arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc That will automatically generate a working target config for the compiler given on the command line and run sb2-build-libtool script to get you a @@ -86,7 +88,12 @@ export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/sb2/bin -- snip -- After that you can run sb2 easily from anywhere and it'll just do its magic. +Continuing the above examples, here's how to compile and run a simple +hello-world program: +$ sb2 gcc -o hello hello.c +$ sb2 ./hello +Hello, World! MAEMO DEVELOPMENT @@ -142,6 +149,12 @@ the actual, possibly modified, arguments. The result depends on how sb2 was configured (see notes about sb2-init above) +KNOWN ISSUES + +1. Dmalloc is utterly and completely incompatible with Scratchbox 2. +2. Performance is not as good as it could be. +3. Memory leaks exist, but they have not posed significant problems + so far. -- That's all folks, enjoy! @@ -75,10 +75,6 @@ target_root (rootstrap). Note that this can be really slow. See alse option -c. \-T DIRECTORY Use DIRECTORY as tools_root (override the value which was specified to sb2-init when the target specification was created). -.SH ENVIRONMENT -There are quite many environment variables being used. Since sb2 is still -very volatile, the best documentation is in the source of sb2 script itself. - .SH EXAMPLES .TP sb2 ./configure @@ -96,7 +92,7 @@ To configure sb2, do something like this: mkdir $HOME/buildroot cd $HOME/buildroot [fetch a rootfs from somewhere and extract it here] -sb2-init -c /abs/path/to/qemu-arm TARGET /path/to/cross-compiler/bin/arm-linux-gcc +sb2-init -c qemu-arm TARGET /path/to/cross-compiler/bin/arm-linux-gcc .fi To change default scratchbox2 target: @@ -107,9 +103,8 @@ sb2-config -d another_target .P .I ~/.scratchbox2/config .SH SEE ALSO -.BR gcc (1), -.BR ld (1), .BR fakeroot (1), +.BR qemu (1) No known bugs at this time. .SH AUTHOR .nf |