Palm (m68k-palmos-gcc) compilation under KDevelop

Derek Broughton dbroughton at netcom.ca
Wed Jul 2 16:21:58 BST 2003


From: "Harald Fernengel" <harry at kdevelop.org>
>
> On Wednesday 02 July 2003 15:45, you wrote:
> > Has anyone managed to configure kdevelop to compile for the Palm?  It looks
> > like it should be possible, but so far I've only managed to have it tell me
> > "C compiler cannot create executables" as shown below.  That may be true,
> > but I'm not really sure why it should be an absolute requirement for
> > kdevelop. Obviously the immediate problem here is that Palm programs don't
> > have a 'main', they have 'PilotMain' - again, I don't see that being an
> > immediate show-stopper, but I'm just beginning to try to figure out what I
> > need to do.
>
> I don't think that the auto* tools are working well with the palm stuff,
> either you have to get a set of m4 macros that is specially prepared for palm
> or you have to write your own makefiles and import them as custom project.

Thanks.  I don't have too much trouble with the idea of making my own
makefiles - I just hoped somebody had already done it :-)

> In KDevelop 3.x, you can also try to use qmake which hasn't any configure
> checks. Just make sure you have a valid mkspecs file.

Is 3.x really ready to use? :-)  Debian's notoriously conservative, but I
haven't seen even a hint of it yet.


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