[Remind-Fans] ARM Port?

[yard-ape at telus.net]

Maybe I should just put the ipk on the Zaurus Software Index, but I 
think I need to change some of the parameters like location in custom.h 
(and maybe language in lang.h) to refer to shell environment variables 
before my binary is really useful to anyone but me and my neighbors.

In the mean time, here's a link with links referring to all the rpms you 
need in order to cross compile (when I wrote that this was the hardest 
part I was being very facetious):

http://docs.zaurus.com/index.php?id=linux_compiler_setup_howto

(My distro (Slack) doesn't support rpms, so I run rpm2tgz on them, then 
pkginstall ...)

Then just cd into your remind source directory. and add this line to 
your Makefile:

    export CC=/opt/Embedix/tools/bin/arm-linux-gcc

 run ./configure and make as usual.  Done.   (...Unless you want to go 
ahead and write the GUI now.)

I'm currently using a shell script on my Z that calls opie-sh for a date 
argument, then opens a processed text file of my daily schedule in 
"texteditor".  Incomparable to those other "calendar programs".

Avery Ke wrote:

>
> That is wonderful. I half-heartedly tried to install it some months 
> ago, and had no luck. After the the clarity and succinctness of 
> remind, the usual PIM-style calenders are irritating.
> Got a "cookbook" type recipe for how you put it on the Zaurus?
>
> thanks, Avery
>
> yard-ape at telus.net wrote:
>
>> Remind is on the Zauus!  (The hardest part was installing the 
>> cross-compiling rpms, actually.  Thanks for the neat code, David, et. 
>> al.)
>>
>> The next step is the GUI.  This isn't a huge priority for me; I pipe 
>> remind through awk to produce plain-text timetables.   Nonetheless, 
>> it really would be nice to have out there.  I fancy a simple new Qt 
>> interface: that's Zaurus's native Desktop, and then it would be there 
>> for the KDE folk, as well.  Again, I'll see what I can do, and post 
>> (much) later.  I've never programmed Qt before.  Any pointers, 
>> suggestions, leads welcome.
>>
>> -Derek
>>
>>> Okay, I'll see if I can cross-compile it.   The GUI frontend would 
>>> really get it flying, too (text editing is not a PDA's strong suit); 
>>> the wish tool would probably be Keypebble (Zaurus uses a Qt desktop 
>>> called Qtopia; though it can alternatively run X, that mirght be a 
>>> bit much to ask most users for the advantage of one app---even one 
>>> like this); I'll see what I can do, and post later on.
>>>
>>> David F. Skoll wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 yard-ape at telus.net wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>>> Anyone heard of a port of Remind to ARM Linux? I'd  love to run it
>>>>> directly on my Zaurus.
>>>>>   
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Remind is ANSI C and should compile/run just fine on ARM Linux.
>>>> The Tcl/Tk front-end is another matter; you'd need a version of "wish"
>>>> that works on the Zaurus windowing system (which I don't believe is 
>>>> X11).
>>>>
>>>> If someone buys and sends me a Zaurus, I'll build a Remind binary. :-)
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> David.
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