[opensource-dev] SL on ARM platform

[Tigro Spottystripes]

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Are you gonna make a Maemo/Meegoo SL client? That would be fucking
awesome! :D

(i'm getting myself a N900 in a couple of weeks, having a SL client to
run on it would be the perfect icing for the cake)

On 14/7/2010 09:35, DEEPAK JAIN wrote:
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> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 6:58 AM, DEEPAK JAIN <j.deepak at samsung.com
> <mailto:j.deepak at samsung.com>> wrote:
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>     Hi,
> 
>     Is it possible to run second life on any ARM based platform OR
>     anybody tried to compile SL on ARM?
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>     If YES, what all diffficulties that came or is it that it is not at
>     all possible?
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> SL has been compiled on quite a few different processors and in most
> cases while possible to compile, results were disappointing. That said
> please don't let me put you off.
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> It means that it was tried on a ARM based device. Results disappointing
> means that SL performance was really poor on ARM devices due to huge
> library dependencies or what?
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> Thanks,
> Deepak Jain
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> IMHO the easiest route would be to use a Linux based distribution such
> as Debian or Ubuntu (personal bias to those distros) and do a
> --standalone build. This would use the system pre-compiled libraries for
> all the dependencies. It will be necessary to build a couple of extra
> dependencies yourself that are not present in default distributions. The
> way I would tackle this is to install Debian for Arm then use my
> apt.byteme.org.uk <http://apt.byteme.org.uk> source repository to pull
> in all source dependencies and compile the extra packages directly from
> there.
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> Regards
> 
> Robin
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> Thanks & Regards,
> 
> Deepak Jain
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> Sr. Software Engineer - R&D
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