[haiku-development] Re: Porting software to Haiku
- From: Schrijvers Luc <Begasus@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:34:38 +0100
Check haiku-ports http://ports.haiku-files.org/wiki for info that should
get you started on porting.
On do, 2009-02-12 at 11:10 +0000, Matt wrote:
> Is there guide already written on this subject? If not I think it
> could be a very useful document to have for when the project wants to
> really start pulling in application developers.
>
> I thought I might try and port synergy to Haiku, unfortunately for me
> I know very little about autoconf and the first stumbling block would
> seem to be that it doesn't recognise the type of system. I'm guessing
> that it just needs to recognise the BePC string from uname. I tried
> stealing some of the stuff from buildtools but having got into a bit
> of a mess (it seems to ./configure but not make - config.status
> complains about a bad parameter) so I'm not sure that was really the
> way to go with it. If anyone's got some pointers I'd very much
> appreciate them!
>
> I've got Haiku booting on my hardware, sound doesn't work now (but it
> did a few months ago so I guess that was using OSS which isn't
> installed atm). I've got a sata drive and can only boot if I enable
> AHCI in the BIOS and disable Legacy USB support. If I have legacy USB
> support enabled the boot process hangs right after the hand off to
> Haiku from the BIOS.
>
> Matt
>
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