Howto build OpenMoko for an X86-Desktop
25 October 2007I’ve been eying the OpenMoko project for quite a while now. I haven’t bought a device yet because i am eagerly awaiting the second hardware revision which features amongst other things Wi-Fi. Despite that, i was curious about the current state of the OpenMoko project so i set out to build an X86 version which i would be able to run inside a nested X-server on my desktop. Doing so shouldn’t be a problem as it is documented in the OpenMoko wiki (Link).
Unfortunately following the outlined steps didn’t yield a runable image. The build process (make openmoko-devel-image) fails early complaining about problems with compiling uboot. As i don’t need a boot loader to run the OpenMoko software inside a chroot environment i simply stripped all dependencies on uboot from the OpenMoko-makefile and tried again. This this time the build process succeeded.
My first impression of the OpenMoko environment? Well lets say i am not impressed. If the software i have build there is really the current state of the project than other software stacks like Qtopia or Maemo are far ahead. But lets not judge to quickly, i might have simply screwed up the build. Now that i am able to create images i will surely spent some more time with OpenMoko.
