Raff's Home @ NetWinder.org

Packages I ported to NetWinder:

• Kaffe - An OpenSource Java Virtual Machine - Download kaffe-1.0.b1-nw.tar.gz (2MB)
  Download last updated snapshot (07/19) : kaffe-snap-nw.tar.gz (2MB)
  Notes about the NetWinder port: kaffe_notes.txt
  Official web site: http://www.transvirtual.com/

  Note: I didn't update these sources and the porting notes in a long time ( and I don't know if I will ever have the time to do it ): But in the mean time my changes have been added to the standard Kaffe distribution, so the latest sources from http://www.transvirtual.com/ should build and run fine on NetWinder (just run configure).

  Note: I wrote the system-dependent code for Kaffe JIT. It needs to be debugged, but I'm currently stuck since the code for flushing the instruction cache does not work, and I cannot debug the generated code. But feel free to examine and play with the code available as armjit.tar.gz

• GTK+ - The GIMP toolKit - Download gtk+-1.0.4-nw.tar.gz (1.4MB)
  something in the installed version was missing, so here is the full package.
  Note: Needed for gzilla
  Official web site: http://www.gtk.org/

• Gzilla - A small WEB Browser based on GTK - Download gzilla-0.1.5-nw.tar.gz (170KB)
  Note: This version is aligned to GTK+ 1.0.4
  Official web site: http://www.gzilla.com/

• libjpeg - The Independ JPEG Group reference implementation - Download jpeg-6a-nw.tar.gz (540KB)
  Official web site: http://www.ijg.org/

• Sniffit - A TCP/IP packet sniffer - Download sniffit.0.3.5-nw.tar.gz (200KB)
  Offical web site: http://reptile.rug.ac.be/~coder/sniffit/sniffit.html

• XPDF - A PDF viewer - Download xpdf-0.7a-nw.tar.gz (200KB)
  Official web site: http://www.aimnet.com/~derekn/xpdf/

• rsynth - a simple text-to-speech system - Download rsynth-2.0.tar.gz (100KB)
  Author: Nick Ing-Simmons
  Note: The package works as it is, but better results can be obtained if built with phonems dictionaries.
  To use the dictionaries, gdbm is also needed.
  These extra packaged can be obtained from the following sites:
  • British-English Pronuntiation Dictionary
  • American-English Pronuntiation Dictionary
  • GDBM
  To build the full package with dictionaries run 'configure' with a command line like:

  		configure arm-linux \
  			--with-aDict=../dict/cmudict.0.4 \
  			--with-bDict=../dict/beep-1.0 \
  			--with-gdbm=../gdbm-1.7.3/
  		

• NETPBM - The Portable Bitmap library - Download netpbm-1mar94.p1-nw.tar.gz (900KB)
  Original package: ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/utilities/netpbm-1mar1994.p1.tar.gz
  Note: The package is preconfigured for NetWinder (on my machine), but you can rebuild the Makefiles by running:

  		make realclean
  		xmkmf
  		make World
  		

• dumb - a 3D Game Engine for Doom-compatible worlds - Download dumb-0.13.2-nw.tar.gz (550KB)
  Official web site: http://samba.anu.edu.au/dumb/
  Note: This package requires a working set of pbmplus/netpbm tools and libraries. You can retrieve and install the one present in this page.
  You can use the following command to properly configure the package:

  		CFLAGS="-fsigned-char -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti" \
  		CXXFLAGS="-fsigned-char -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti" \
  			sh configure arm-linux
  		

  This is a simple game to tests the package: dumb-game-0.13.0-nw.tar.gz (300KB) A Doom WAD file can be downloaded from ID Software's FTP site

Notes on package builds:

• GNOME - GNU Network Object Model Environment
  Official web site: http://www.gnome.org/
  I succesfully built the current (31/12/1998) snapshot of GNOME 0.99.1 from CVS:
  • glib
  • gtk+
  • imlib
  • libIDL (requires patch )
  • ORBit (requires patch )
  • gnome-libs (requires patch )
  • gnome-core (requires patch )
  • gnome-admin
  • gnome-network
  • gnome-utils
  • gnome-games
  • libPropList (requires patch )
  • libgtop (requires patch )
  • balsa
  • gtkicq
  
  A few of them require small patches to build or correctly work. The list of patches is available at gnome-patches.html

  Note: All the patches but libgtop have been integrated in the official source tree. They are available since 1/2/99.

  Note: The current C compilers (both gcc-2.8.1 and egcs-1.1.1) have a bug that makes glib/testglib.c and glib/gthread/testgthread.c fail to compile. As a temporary bypass run the compilation command for that file without the -O2 option.

  I also have available a few scripts to make life easier when configuring, building or running GNOME executables (installed in /usr/local/gnome/ - I didn't wanted to add the GNOME stuff to the standard PATH and such, so I use these script to temporary set them while running GNOME applications) :

  • gnonfigure: configure a GNOME package to build in the subdirectory build-arch (i.e. build-armv4l)
  • gnomake: build a GNOME package (after setting the correct PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH)
  • gnomexec: run a GNOME executable (after setting the correct PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH)
  Check the script source for more information.

• KDE - The K Desktop Environment
  Official web site: http://www.kde.org/
  Note: KDE 1.0 builds with no problems, with the usual configure and compiler options.
  In order to properly work it requires a "patched" libstdc++.so to fix the incompatibilities with glibc.so.
  I use the following script to build the various KDE packages: build-kde.sh

  KDE requires the Qt libraries to be installed.

  (for some reason PC Plus magazine cites me and John in an short article about Corel Computer and KDE)

• Qt - Qt GUI Toolkit
  Official web site: http://www.troll.no/dl/qtfree-dl.html
  Note: Qt 1.40 seems to work very fine with the "patched" libstdc++.so and the usual build flags.

  Since the last version I tried ( 1.33 ) there has been some cleanup in the configuration and now it seems to be more "difficult" to hack the build flags.

  So, this time I took a different approach: I created a new configuration file ( qt/configs/netwinder-g++-shared ) as a copy of qt/configs/linux-g++-shared, and I added the needed flags to the compiler definition:

  	    $ diff netwinder-g++-shared linux-g++-shared
  	    4,6d3
  	    < # NetWinder-specific flags
  	    < SYSCONF_CC += -fsigned-char -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -fomit-frame-pointer
  	    < 
  	    

  Then I simply configured the package by running:

  	    make netwinder-g++-shared
  	    

• LessTif - The Hungry Programmer Motif
  Official web site: http://www.lesstif.org
  Note: Not much to say. The current version (lesstif-current on 9/20/1998 - it does not really have a version number) builds with no problem with:

  	    ./configure arm-linux
  	    

  LessTif is needed for Mozilla (as replacemnt of Motif). The test programs work fine.

• Mozilla - should I say more ? :)
  Official web site: http://www.mozilla.org/
  Patches to apply: mozilla-nw.patch (see notes below)
  Binaries: mozilla-nw-bin.tar.gz (6MB - updated September, 30 1998)

  Note: The latest sources (October, 10 1998) contains all the changes to correctly build on a NetWinder (but one: the initialization of a FILE pointer with stdout - substitute it with FILE * xxx = NULL;)
  If your version of the sources still does not contain them, use my patches above.

  With the supplied changes the official sources builds with no problems (if you have enough patience :) and you can get an almost working, almost full featured Web Browser.
  The package requires LessTif (as replacement for Motif) in order to build.

  In order to properly work it requires a "patched" libstdc++.so to fix the incompatibilities with glibc.so.

  More Notes:

  • This is in the Mozilla notes for building on Unix , but if you do are in a hurry to put your NetWinder at work:
    Don't forget to set the following environment variables:

                export MOZILLA_CLIENT=1 MOZ_MEDIUM=1 NO_SECURITY=1 NO_UPDATE=1
    	    

    If you don't do it, Mozilla does not compile. If your compilation breaks and you find that's the problem, I'm sorry but you have to scratch the current build and start it again. Just restarting the make after setting these variable creates an executable that does not work (been there, done that - more than once ):

  • The current makefile generates 2 executables:
    moz-export
    4MB and something
    mozilla-export
    32MB (it's a debug version - but still it's BIIIIG !!!!)

    moz-export right now does NOT work: it crashes while starting, and I still don't know why ( gdb crashes after loading a tons of shared libraries ):

    mozilla-export should work. You can make a more maneagable version by running 'strip' on it (it gets down to around 7MB).

  • Remember to add the directory containing the binaries and shared libraries to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
    Just to test that everything is working, go to dist/Linux/Linux2.0.31_arm_DBG.OBJ/bin and do:

    	    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./mozilla-export
    	    

• KPilot - a Palm Pilot/Workpad hot-sync software for Unix
  Official web site: http://www.slac.com/pilone/kpilot_home/
  Note: The packages builds with no problems. It requires KDE and it should be configured as KDE.
  I created a simple script to configure standard C/C++ packages, that you can use to do so:

  	    #!/bin/sh
  	    cflags="-fsigned-char -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -fomit-frame-pointer"
  	    CFLAGS=$cflags CXXFLAGS=$cflags sh configure --host=arm-linux
  	    

  After building and installing the package, create a link for the default port to use:

  	    ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/pilot
  	    

  And make sure you have the correct access rights (i.e. 666)