Development Tools

From openZIM

openzim.org hosts a lot of tools for developers.

Commit access to the openZIM Subversion repository comes with a ssh account on openzim.org. With that you can log in and use these tools hosted on the server.

Contents 1 Web Services 2 Linux 2.1 Cross Compiler 3 Windows 3.1 Access via RDP (recommended) 3.2 Access via VNC 3.3 Software installed on Windows 3.4 Code 3.5 Helpful Documents on porting GNU Software to Windows 4 ReactOS 4.1 Access via VNC 4.2 Access via RDP 4.3 Software installed on ReactOS 4.4 Helpful Documents on porting GNU Software to ReactOS 5 Darwin (Mac OS X) 6 Symbian

Web Services

• Wiki
• Subversion
• Mailinglist
• Bug tracker

Linux

the native operating system of openzim.org, running on

• AMD X2 5050e
• 2x 2,6 GHz
• 4 GB RAM
• 2x 250 GB HDU (RAID 1)

Database Server

• MySQL
• PostgreSQL

Tools and Libraries

• screen
• GDB
• strace
• ccache
• GCC 4.1.2
• doxygen
• cxxtools
• tntdb
• tntnet
• crossdev

Cross Compiler

crossdev / Mingw32

• gcc: /usr/lib/gcc/mingw32
• libc: /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/mingw32
• virtual root: /usr/mingw32

Installation

crossdev -S -v -t mingw32

Installing tools using Portage

xmerge --root /usr/mingw32 -av $PACKAGE

Installed Packages

• sys-libs/zlib
• app-arch/bzip2

Windows

an instance of Windows XP professional is installed inside a virtual KVM image on openzim.org, providing a build environment for ReactOS compatible ports.

• 1 CPU
• 1 GB RAM
• 10 GB HDU

Access via RDP (recommended)

When Windows XP is loaded up access via RDP is available which gives a better experience than VNC.

YOU@YOURHOST$ ssh -L 3981:127.0.0.1:3981 USERNAME@openzim.org
USERNAME@openzim$ ps ax | grep Windows
USERNAME@openzim$ sudo WindowsXP.sh
YOU@YOURHOST$ rdesktop localhost

Access via VNC

Console accessible via VNC on localhost:0, single user only.

YOU@YOURHOST$ ssh -L 5901:127.0.0.1:5900 USERNAME@openzim.org
USERNAME@openzim$ ps ax | grep Windows
USERNAME@openzim$ sudo WindowsXP.sh
YOU@YOURHOST$ vncviewer localhost:1

Software installed on Windows

• Avira Personal Edition
• 7-Zip
• Symbian SDK (see Development Tools#Symbian)
• Strawberry Perl in C:\Perl\
• MinGW in C:\MinGW\
• MSYS in C:\MSYS\
• Visual Studio C++ Express
• XEmacs
• wget

Code

Code is available in C:\code\ and is synchronized with the SVN servers.

Helpful Documents on porting GNU Software to Windows

• http://www.mingw.org/wiki/LinuxCrossMinGW
• http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MinGWforFirstTimeUsers
• http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/nailgun-for-faster-startup-of-java-apps-windows-port-available-review-porting-woes-to-windows/

ReactOS

an instance of ReactOS is installed inside a virtual KVM image on openzim.org, providing a build environment for native ReactOS testing.

• 1 CPU
• 1 GB RAM
• 10 GB HDU

Access via VNC

Console accessible via VNC on localhost:1, single user only.

YOU@YOURHOST$ ssh -L 5901:127.0.0.1:5901 USERNAME@openzim.org
USERNAME@openzim$ ps ax | grep Windows
USERNAME@openzim$ sudo WindowsXP.sh
YOU@YOURHOST$ vncviewer localhost:1

Access via RDP

YOU@YOURHOST$ ssh -L 3389:127.0.0.1:3389 USERNAME@openzim.org
USERNAME@openzim$ ps ax | grep Windows
USERNAME@openzim$ sudo WindowsXP.sh
YOU@YOURHOST$ rdesktop [-k your_key_map] localhost:3389

Software installed on ReactOS

Helpful Documents on porting GNU Software to ReactOS

Darwin (Mac OS X)

WiP

Helpful Documents on porting GNU Software to Mac OS X

Symbian

The Symbian SDK from Nokia is installed on the Windows virtual machine on openzim.org.

Helpful Documents on porting GNU Software to Symbian

• http://developer.symbian.com/main/downloads/papers/PortingfromLinuxPt1.pdf