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Re: [ts-7000] Re: GTK+ Frame buffer on 7300

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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] Re: GTK+ Frame buffer on 7300
From: Christopher Friedt <>
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:25:20 +0100
An excellent idea _instead_ of cross compiling, because of all of the 
difficulties with pkg-config, attempting to run native binaries inside 
of ./configure, etc, i would __HIGHLY__ suggest running Qemu/ARM and 
natively compiling all of your gtk+ or higher-level sources.

~/Chris

weber_udo wrote:
> We tried GTK+ on a EP9302 board we developed by our own (32MB SDRAM,
> 16 MB NOR Flash) and not on the TS7300 a year ago. Compiling an
> application was not easy, because some packages needed by GTK have
> some problems with cross compiling. So there is some work to get it
> compiled. Once we got an executable (the hello world application). The
> size of the application was about 15 MB just for hello world. And it
> was very very slow. We compiled another GTK sample application and got
> the same results.
> So at least we decided to throw the whole GTK+ packages away and build
> our own windowing system based directly on DirectFB. A Hello World
> application is now less than 2 MB and very fast.
> 
> If you still want to try GTK+ you can contact me. I think that I have
> still somewhere a shell script which builds the whole GTK packages
> (gettext, freetext, pango, gtk, etc.) for the EP9302 processor.
> 
> Udo Weber
> Analytica GmbH
>  
> 
> 
> --- In  "Alvaro Aguirre" <>
> wrote:
>> I try it once but I don't remember the results :s
>>
>> On Nov 4, 2007 11:53 AM, dsdenu <> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Has anyone had any experience using GTK+ frame buffer version ? It
>>>  looks like a great way to utilize the 7300 features AND write
> portable
>>>  apps.
>>>
>>>
> 
> 
> 
> 


 
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