[Icon-tech] compiling or making closed source programs for the iconor braille plus

[Marc Mulcahy]

We will be making our OpenEmbedded-based build system available to anyone
after the 2.1 final release.

 This will allow cross-compilation of native applications on a Linux PC.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: icon-tech-bounces at mulcahy.ws 
> [mailto:icon-tech-bounces at mulcahy.ws] On Behalf Of Nick Gawronski
> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 11:40 PM
> To: icon-tech at mulcahy.ws
> Subject: [Icon-tech] compiling or making closed source 
> programs for the iconor braille plus
> 
> Hi, I totally support the open source groups and think the 
> more opensource stuff for the braille plus the better.  
> However it is sometimes needed to either make money with a 
> program or compile software to use on linux.  If say I 
> wantted to compile emacs or nano to work on the braille plus 
> what would be the easiest way to do this?  Personally I think 
> you should include some common programs in the braille plus 
> such as a full version of ssh and a ftp client.  Inclution of 
> things like nano or emacs would not be very useful as those 
> programs change all of the time so they would quickly become 
> out dated.  If you could include a ftp client that supportted 
> ssl transfers this would be greate as well as web browser 
> support for ftp.  I myself use debian unstable.  Are there 
> any directions on any site on bridging the usb network 
> connections for linux users and do you think the debelopers 
> section of the users site will be updated to reflect the new 
> changes in this new version? 
> 
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