User:Tswindell/Ubuntu 10.10 ARM N900 Image Creation

Latest revision as of 16:12, 15 December 2010

Introduction

This page describes how to build and configure all the required tools from source to create MeeGo images for the ARM based Nokia N900 devices, on a system running Ubuntu 10.10. This procedure has currently only been tested on the 64-bit distribution.

Ubuntu 10.10 64-Bit GNU/Linux

Prerequisites

• Operating System: Ubuntu 10.10 GNU/Linux
• Extra Packages: git, debhelper, build-essential, zlib1g-dev, libpng12-dev, libexpat1-dev, libsdl1.2-dev

Step 1.1: Build & Install gles-libs

 git clone git://gitorious.org/qemu-maemo/gles-libs.gitw
 cd gles-libs
 dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -B
 sudo dpkg -i ../libdgles2_1.3.0-17_amd64.deb ../libdgles2-dev_1.3.0-17_amd64.deb

Step 1.2: Build & Install QEMU

 git clone git://gitorious.org/qemu-maemo/qemu.git
 cd qemu
 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-gles2 --enable-skinning --target-list=i386-softmmu,x86_64-softmmu,arm-softmmu
 make
 sudo make install

Step 2: Build & Install mic2 (MeeGo Image Creator)

Step 3: Create a bootable raw image for the Nokia N900