nanogui: Thread: Getting Started

Hi, I'm trying to use Nano-X on an embedded device I'm working on.  I've
compiled it for Cygwin, but what I want to do is compile a client on my
ARM board then have it connect to the Cygwin server to use for
development until I get a working display for the ARM.  The ARM board
has an embedded Linux kernel on it, but I'm not using a frame buffer
device.  We are creating a custom interface to a graphics controller.
I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to compile these things
separately.  I was hoping for some pointers.
 
Thanks,
 
Randall Philipson, P.E.
Embedded Systems Engineer
World Telemetry, Inc.
http://www.worldtelemetry.com
 
 

> Hi, I'm trying to use Nano-X on an embedded device I'm working on.  I've
compiled it for Cygwin, but what I want to do is compile a client on my
ARM board then have it connect to the Cygwin server to use for
development until I get a working display for the ARM.  The ARM board
has an embedded Linux kernel on it, but I'm not using a frame buffer
device.  We are creating a custom interface to a graphics controller.

Sounds like you want to run Nano-X on X11?  If so, use the
config.x11 configuration file.  I haven't tested building Nano-X
on Cygwin, that may require more adjustments.

Running Nano-X on X11 allows you to use your desktop
to build and debug graphics applications while you're
getting the hardware designed and implemented.

Regards,

Greg

Actually I've compiled nano-x on cygwin just fine using the
config.cygwin file(with one small adjustment).  Now I would like to get
it running on my embedded board.  It has an ARM9 processor running
embedded linux.  It has a small touch screen display on it, but doesn't
have one of the standard interfaces so I need to figure out how to get
Nano-X compiled and running with a custom device driver and using my
cross-tool chain in my cygwin environment.  I've been looking through
the source and I'm having a hard time figuring out where to start.


Randy

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Haerr ####@####.#### 
Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2006 11:52 AM
To: Randall Philipson; ####@####.####
Subject: Re: [nanogui] Getting Started

> Hi, I'm trying to use Nano-X on an embedded device I'm working on.  
> I've
compiled it for Cygwin, but what I want to do is compile a client on my
ARM board then have it connect to the Cygwin server to use for
development until I get a working display for the ARM.  The ARM board
has an embedded Linux kernel on it, but I'm not using a frame buffer
device.  We are creating a custom interface to a graphics controller.

Sounds like you want to run Nano-X on X11?  If so, use the
config.x11 configuration file.  I haven't tested building Nano-X on
Cygwin, that may require more adjustments.

Running Nano-X on X11 allows you to use your desktop to build and debug
graphics applications while you're getting the hardware designed and
implemented.

Regards,

Greg

tor, 06 07 2006 kl. 15:16 -0500, skrev Randall Philipson:
> It has a small touch screen display on it, but doesn't
> have one of the standard interfaces so I need to figure out how to get
> Nano-X compiled and running with a custom device driver
Did you take a look at tslib?
http://cvs.arm.linux.org.uk/


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