On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Sebastien Ferre wrote: > Hi, > > I have an application that I would love to run > on my N810. I know this is possible because it > has been done for Unison, including its GTK interface. > > http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=27426 > > However, I haven't a clue on how this has been done. > > > Sebastien Mondet wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> >> On my N810, thanks to the "easy debian" technique: >> http://wiki.maemo.org/Easy_Debian >> > > It says 2.5Gb are needed, but this includes OpenOffice > and Firefox, which I don't need. Can you detail the > "easy debian" technique for installing ocaml in a lighter > way ? > > It seems that at the time I tried (last summer), easy-debian was smaller and fitted in the internal memory card (my debian-squeeze.img.ext2 file weights 1.2 GB). What I did is: - followed their installation instructions - just for fun, tried once in my life to lunch open-office on a PDA :) - played with localepurge (apt-get install localepurge) and many apt-get remove and apt-get clean, to make space to install ocaml & co But you can provide your own debian tree or disk-image to the easy-debian scripts (I did not try but they say so). > > I got access to all the ocaml packages which are available on debian-ARM. >> Everything I tried worked perfectly (but I only tried "text mode" apps). >> > > GTK is part of mameo, so with luck, lablGTK should also > work. Have you tried ? > > no I even removed all X11 packages. >From debian I used: omake, extlib, pcre, and sexplib And also camlmix and bracetax from sources. (http://martin.jambon.free.fr/camlmix/ ; http://bracetax.berlios.de/ ) Sébastien Ferré > > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 5:14 PM, David Allsopp > dra-news@metastack.com>> wrote: >> >> My shiny new Nokia N900 has finally arrived so, of course, having >> got bash, >> vim and texlive successfully installed I naturally need a compiler! >> >> Before I dig into trying to compile OCaml on Maemo 5, can I ask if >> anyone >> else out there has already tried (and hopefully succeeded)? >> >> >> David >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: >> http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list >> Archives: http://caml.inria.fr >> Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners >> Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: >> http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list >> Archives: http://caml.inria.fr >> Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners >> Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs >> >