Wow! Your page is probably the most informative document I've seen on the internet in months. Of course I haven't tried to follow your advice yet, but this is exactly what I've been looking for. (I've been lurking on this list for months.)
I had exactly the same experience when I first tried to get started - I finally ran out of "free" time and had to give up. Thanks for documenting this - I'm anxious to get going again. David Vaughn On 2001.11.14 15:35 Akkana wrote: > Michael Kjorling writes: > > most pages I > > have found on how to get started seems rather incomprehensible. > > > > Does anyone have any suggestion about a page that assumes that one > > knows _nothing_ about Palm programming, and explains how to get > > started? > > Joe Pfeiffer writes: > > The O'Reilly book is pretty good, as are the downloadable reference > > manuals from Palm. > > I didn't find that the O'Reilly book or the references on Palm's site > had any relevance whatsoever to developing on Linux with software you > can download today. > > I found the getting-started experience very frustrating, because every > document I found on the web described versions of the software which > were no longer available, and didn't address the fact that the PRC-tools > distribution and the SDK versions don't work together, or that the > PRC-tools example code all relies on a version of the SDK which is > no longer available for Linux (though you can get old SDKs for Windows > and Mac). Similarly, all the actual Palm Linux developers I found > were using setups from a year or more ago. > > I wrote up a page on my experiences, which may be helpful to you: > http://www.shallowsky.com/palmlinuxdev.html > > If there are things I missed due to being a bonehead Palm newbie, > and there actually is an easier way to do any of these things, > I hope someone will correct me and post the easier ways for those > of us who didn't figure it out. > > ...Akkana > _______________________________________________ > Pilot-unix mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://hcirisc.cs.binghamton.edu/mailman/listinfo/pilot-unix > -- http://www.Synaps-Inc.com David L. Vaughn Synaps, Inc. (voice) 404-320-7283 x223 2957 Clairmont Rd. (fax) 404-325-1100 Suite 170 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Atlanta, GA 30329 _______________________________________________ Pilot-unix mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hcirisc.cs.binghamton.edu/mailman/listinfo/pilot-unix
