Can I develop/build LogicMail with Linux and emacs/vi?
• The trunk (latest development code) and the 1.1 branch can be built directly using ant, some files from the RIM JDE, and some files from the Sun J2ME SDK. The README.txt file in the lib subdirectory should have the necessary details on what you will need to download. • The simulator will work with WINE, though newer simulators sometimes act very quirky. • The Slashdev blog has a lot of useful articles on running the BlackBerry development tools on Linux. • You may run into problems due to hard-coded backslashes in both rapc.jar and SignatureTool.jar, which the Slashdev blog outlines the basic approaches for resolving. • For the older branches/versions, it takes a lot more work. My personal approach for the build server involved a lot of tricks and plenty of files from NetBeans.
• The trunk (latest development code), 2.0, and 1.1 branches can be built directly using ant, some files from the RIM JDE, and some files from the Sun J2ME SDK. The README.txt file in the lib subdirectory should have the necessary details on what you will need to download. • The simulator will pretend to work with WINE, though newer simulators sometimes act very quirky. • The Slashdev blog has a lot of useful articles on running the BlackBerry development tools on Linux. • You may run into problems due to hard-coded backslashes in both rapc.jar and SignatureTool.jar, which the Slashdev blog outlines the basic approaches for resolving. These problems appear to be fixed in the BlackBerry OS 5.0 and 6.0 tools, but may exist in older versions.
