| Tmsnc textbased (console) MSN client for Fox Board |
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TMSNC is a textbased (console) MSN client written in C. TMSNC should work on most Unix (Linux, BSD, MacOS) compatible operating systems. The goal of this project is to create a client like MSN Messenger but without any graphical features. These features make it ideal for the Fox Board.
The
guide is referring to the Fox Board with kernel compiled with "Phrozen
SDK made by John Crispin" offered by default from Acme System. In
order to cross-compile the application is necessary to have everything
you need ready on your computer. To install the SDK under Linux or
Windows may refer to one of the following methods: method 1 Linux e method 2 Win.
In particular, this guide refers to a typical Linux installation,
exactly Fedora 9. Therefore be used commands belonging to the Linux
world, in case you
have not yet acquired a good domestication with commands from a shell,
is
required reading some guida in the network. Prepared everything you need, including the SDK, you must obtain the
source code of Tmsnc. The program is under GNU license, source code is available
for download from the homepage, generally these files are distributed in zipped archives, and we must
continue with the decompression and the copy in a folder at our choice,
to have everything all at your fingertips we can use this path /../devboard-R2_01/apps/NCurses, where with /../ refers to a generic
path of your SDK. Before you can compile any source in general is important to resolve
all the dependencies, in this case the program have two dependencies: the library NCurses compiled according to this guide and the library OpenSSL compiled from default to SDK, to
proceed with the porting will be followed the next steps from shell Linux by
typing carefully and where necessary replace /../ with your path: /..# cd devboard-R2_01 /devboard-R2_01# . init_env /devboard-R2_01# cd apps /devboard-R2_01/apps/# cd Tmsnc/devboard-R2_01/apps/Tmsnc# ./configure --build=i686-linux-gnu --host=cris-axis-linux-gnu --prefix=/../devboard-R2_01/apps/tmsnc2 --with-ncurses=/../devboard-R2_01/apps/ncurses2 --enable-rpath --with-openssl=/../devboard-R2_01/target/cris-axis-linux-gnu /devboard-R2_01/apps/Tmsnc# make /devboard-R2_01/apps/Tmsnc# make install
At this point if everything went well we have a chat program compiled and executable by Fox Board. To create a custom kernel with preinstalled Tmsnc can proceed with the following steps:
/devboard-R2_01/apps/Tmsnc# cd ../.. /devboard-R2_01# cp /../devboard-R2_01/apps/ncurses2/lib /../devboard-R2_01/target/cris-axis-linux-gnu/lib /devboard-R2_01# cp /../devboard-R2_01/apps/tmsnc/bin /../devboard-R2_01/target/cris-axis-linux-gnu/bin /devboard-R2_01# make fimage
With
the last command entered, we have added the shared libraries needed to
Tmsnc to the kernel, now we can proceed with the flash of Fox Board
bridge the two control pins on the Fox Board and typing:
/devboard-R2_01/apps/Tmsnc# ./boot_linux -F -i fimage
The last operation that remains to be done is to mount a device such as a Pen-Drive on the root, tmsnc write files in that path. First we need to start a Telnet or SSH session to FoxBoard and proceed with the following command:
FoxBoard# mount /dev/sda /root -t vfat
Finally to run tmsnc, simply type via SSH or Telnet:
FoxBoard# tmsnc
otain the login screen as right picture.
N.B: recently for reasons unaware servers msn not accept connections from protocols that aren't live-messenger, when login Tmsnc warn us of an error on the protocol used. The compilation may be the same source of experience cross-compilation. |
This guide describes the steps to follow for cross-compile Tmsnc, it is a textbased (console) MSN client written in C, and is aviable from Fox Board.