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From: Raymond C. R. <ra...@ba...> - 2008-12-05 23:15:45
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Hi folks, Earlier this week, I managed to put together a tiny Intel Atom 330 based computer which can boot and run Haiku. Aside from needing to use the VESA video driver, and a quirk that keeps popping up when typing (Haiku seems to think I'm occasionally holding a key down long after I've released it), it seems beyond stable enough to do development on. In fact, if you belong to the themis-devcvs list, you probably have noticed the commits I've made to the Subversion repository over the last 24 hours. Aside from the makefile, which I haven't committed yet, Themis and add-ons should now compile under Haiku. That's not to say everything is working like it was under BeOS, but it's a step in the right direction. I haven't committed the makefile yet because I had to remove the support for automatically generated dependencies: everytime I ran make, I would get an endless loop of updating the dependencies, and it wouldn't move on to building the object files. So, I went through and commented out all lines referencing the dependency files and generation thereof. I did make some Haiku specific additions to it as well, but they were relatively minor. (Mainly just making sure that it linked the framework against libbind.so, libsocket.so, libssl.so, and libcrypto.so. Yes, I'm going to be moving back over to OpenSSL.) I also had to check-out a copy of the repository via cvs to get a pristine copy of the themis.rsrc resource file to replace the copy that was in the Subversion repository. I'm guessing that when I converted the repository to svn years ago from cvs, that the resource file some how got corrupted in the process, and as a result was preventing xres from adding the resource file to the compiled Themis binary. The main problem that I've had outside of compiling is that the add-ons are not loading. I haven't investigated the reason they aren't loading yet, but all of them have compiled successfully, and are located where they are supposed to be located. Hopefully, I'll have the time this weekend to investigate this, and possibly even fix the problem(s). I intend to build a library out of the V8 Javascript engine that was developed as part of Google's Chrome web browser. I have checked out a copy of that repository and tried compiling it with scons (the build software they're using), but haven't gotten it to do much that way, probably because Haiku isn't on their supported list, so it wasn't taken into account in the SControl file. So, I've started looking for a way to circumvent this by building a makefile, but that's so far resulted in an error dealing with a static cast from one type to another using STL. I'm not very knowledgeable about STL, so this has halted my initial progress in that direction. I don't know if it's a genuine error in the code, or if it's just that gcc 2.95.x which is in use on BeOS and Haiku is too old to handle it. If you happen to know and/or are more knowledgeable about STL than I am, I'd appreciate a bit of help there. That about covers things for the moment, but please let me know if you have any thoughts, comments, or ideas. Raymond |