I'm thinking about writing a task manager application to run on both PCs and on the FreeRunner phone running OpenMoko.

http://www.openmoko.com/

The openmoko environment is based on GTK, so the plan is the write the UI in GTK using D.  The freerunner phone on which OpenMoko runs uses an ARM chip, so I'm assuming I'd need to use the GCC version of D.

Anyway, my question is how feasable is this going to be?  I haven't done development for a phone like this before, nor have I used D extensively.   So I'd kind of like some feedback before I invest a whole lot of time. If anyone has some experience with cross compiling for another processor/environment, or anything else re this that would be enlightening, I'd like to know.  Thanks!

Ansible wrote:
> I'm thinking about writing a task manager application to run on both PCs and on the FreeRunner phone running OpenMoko.
> 
> http://www.openmoko.com/
> 
> The openmoko environment is based on GTK, so the plan is the write the UI in GTK using D.  The freerunner phone on which OpenMoko runs uses an ARM chip, so I'm assuming I'd need to use the GCC version of D.
> 
> Anyway, my question is how feasable is this going to be?  I haven't done development for a phone like this before, nor have I used D extensively.   So I'd kind of like some feedback before I invest a whole lot of time. If anyone has some experience with cross compiling for another processor/environment, or anything else re this that would be enlightening, I'd like to know.  Thanks!

Other people have had success using D on Nokia phones, I believe, though I haven't heard from them personally. I'll be able to tell you more if and when I get a Freerunner.