Re: compiled version of libqte.2.3.6 instead of 2.3.10 ??

[Abdulhaq Lynch <al-arabeyes at alinsyria dot fsnet dot co dot uk>]

Thinking a bit more...

the OE development environment that I am using is based on gcc 3.4.3 - so I 
don't think the binaries that it produces will work with the rest of the 
Archos environment. (i.e., I can't compile a working Qt for you).

The simplest thing that you can do is to include minibidi.c in the application 
you are writing, and to install some arabic fonts. You won't need to modify 
Qt then.

Other than that, if Qt has to be modified then I can't actually do that here 
as I have no way of testing the end result. You will need to download the 
appropriate toolchain as detailed here:

http://www.kevinboone.com/myfirstqtopiaapp1.html

and you can then download the qt-2.3.6 source from the Trolltech web site and 
try and compile it so that it works on the Archos (this may be difficult, I 
don't know). Once you have achieved that then I can help you patch the code 
so that it supports displaying arabic.

wassalaam
abdulhaq

On Saturday 30 April 2005 08:46, Abdulhaq Lynch wrote:
> wa `alaykum assalaam
>
> I think the first thing to try is v2.3.10 as it may well work. However,
> before trying that, you must get telnetting into the machine working. Then,
> see if you can stop and start Qtopia. You may find a script to do that in
> the /etc/init.d diretory (e.g. "#>/etc/init.d/qtopia stop").
>
> We need this so that we can stop qtopia, overwrite the libqt file, and
> start qtopia. If it doesn't work then you just stop qtopia, put the old
> libqt back and restart qtopia again.
>
> Without telnet I wouldn't dare to try anything.....
>
> wassalaam
> abdulhaq
>
> On Friday 29 April 2005 23:50, benoit midy wrote:
> > Assalamu 'akaykum
> >  I just get an Archos PMA430 it is based on Qtopia1.7 QTE2.3.6 except
> > that the File system is designed to be reinitialized on reboot to default
> > value. It is a way to ensure that the device will always recover in a
> > "stable state".
> > So it is very closed to a Z sharp zaurus, indeede many Z applications
> > works on it after a reworks of the ipkg file to change some paths
> > reference. see http://www.kevinboone.com/pma430.html
> >  So I d like to add support to it for arabic, I already begin to port an
> > windows application (in fact I rewrite the appli cause I did not get the
> > source from the author)
> > this application is "barnamaj ahl al-hadeeth" it is available in
> > sahab.net<http://sahab.net/>
> >  So all is already working as I wanted, except to display arabic text :)
> >  So after some googling I just find your project. :))
> > So I d like to know if you could make a compiled version of the
> > qte2.3.6with your patchs
> >   Barakaallahu fika akhi
> >  Abu abillah al-faransi