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title: Opinions on MADDE
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excerpt: I tried to compile one of my projects for the n900 (Minerva text editor to
  be precise), was very lazy to set up a toolchain or scratchbox, so i said to myself
  “Hey let’s try the shiny new tool from Nokia – MADDE”. So
  i downloaded MADDE for my laptop and installed it. Also installed [...]
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date: '2010-05-27 00:01:29 +0000'
date_gmt: '2010-05-26 23:01:29 +0000'
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<p>I tried to compile one of my projects for the n900 (Minerva text editor to be precise), was very lazy to set up a toolchain or scratchbox, so i said to myself &#8220;Hey let&#8217;s try the shiny new tool from Nokia &#8211; MADDE&#8221;.</p>
<p>So i downloaded MADDE for my laptop and installed it. Also installed MADDE client on the n900. So far so good. Next went on the maemo wiki to see what do i need to do to set up Qt Creator. I needed newer Qt Creator, version >= 1.3.80. Ok let&#8217;s do things for good. So i rolled my sleeves up and started writing PKGBUILDs. Two were needed to get latest qt and qtcreator from git and install them in /opt so they don&#8217;t conflict with distro provided ones (You can find them in aur &#8211; qt-opt-git and qtcreator-opt-git). Some things went very wrong so docs and qsqldrivers don&#8217;t seem to build or be detected(i think it&#8217;s a qt issue), but never mind qt creator starts, even if it was bragging about qt private headers&#8230;</p>
<p>Nice&#8230;</p>
<p>So i open up minerva project and set my n900 as target. I start building. All seems ok. Then BAM! i meet reality. I get error on packaging. PACKAGING? WTF? I didn&#8217;t want to package, just run my app! So i find out that madde in order to execute your *incomplete* app packages it, sends it to your device, installs it, runs it, then when you repeat it does the same steps again. That seems a fail to me.</p>
<p>The good thing about madde is that i got my binaries for my device, so with a couple of scp&#8217;s and wtf&#8217;s i got Minerva running on n900. Next goal -> migrate to cmake.</p>
<div id="attachment_222" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 570px"><a href="http://blog.admiral0.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Screenshot-20100527-003627.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-222 " title="Minerva on N900" src="http://blog.admiral0.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Screenshot-20100527-003627.png" alt="Minerva Text Editor" width="560" height="336" /></a>
<p class="wp-caption-text">Minerva on N900</p>
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<p>PS: I think i found a bug in maemo&#8217;s input. When writing in Minerva&#8217;s screen i get only caps, and shift doesn&#8217;t change case. That needs further investigation as i also experience such annoyance also in Fennec.</p>