Porting modRana to WebOS

This page documents the effort to port modRana & Mieru to WebOS. Well, actually to port all the dependencies so that both can be run without major modifications.

For example, there is SDL and its Python bindings available for WebOS. So, provided there was a SDL GUI module, it would be already possible to run both right now.

But there is none at the moment and writing one constitutes a major amount of work. :)

Prerequisites

What needs to be ported first for modRana to run.

Python

Already ported by THP.

see: ​http://thp.io/2011/webos/

Qt + QML

Ported by DanRog.

see: ​http://thp.io/2011/webos/

PySide

Needs to be ported.

Qt Components

Needs to be ported, shouldn't be difficult once the rest is done.

Progress

Python - DONE

Just using the binaries from THP will do.

Qt - in progress

Following the Qt compilation guide on WebOS Internals:

​http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/HowtoQt

Step 1 - DONE & WORKING

Compiled a C++ hello world:

#include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib>
 
int main()
{
     std::cout << "Hello world!\n";
 
     return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

The compiled hello world binary runs fine on the Touchpad.

Step 2 - DONE

Improving the SDK with some code sorcery files.