[WikiReader] can we edit the WikiReader wiki?

Doug Jones dj6mf at frombob.to
Fri Oct 23 06:37:02 CEST 2009


Christopher Hall wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:20:39 -0700
> Doug Jones <dj6mf at frombob.to> wrote:
> 
>> I clicked that Edit button, but it seems to want money from me.  :-)
> 
> Did you create an account on github, I think the free account should
> work.


Ah!  I didn't even notice that option.  Duh.


> 
>> But I assume that somebody else here can edit this page:
>>
>> http://wiki.github.com/wikireader/wikireader/building-from-source
>>
>> In addition to the dependencies listed there, I also had to install 
>> gforth, qt4-qmake, and g++.
> 
>  I can, I added the packages I use.
> (these are listed in doc/Using-schroot for Ubuntu jaunty_i386)



Yes, I didn't read that particular doc....   because I am not using 
schroot, I'm just running Ubuntu 9.04 32-bit.

> 
>> After installing those, I got as far as:
>>
>>
>> g++ -c -pipe -O2 -D_REENTRANT -Wall -W -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_GUI_LIB 
>> -DQT_CORE_LIB -I/usr/share/qt4/mkspecs/linux-g++ -I. 
>> -I/usr/include/qt4/QtCore -I/usr/include/qt4/QtGui -I/usr/include/qt4 
>> -I../../../wiki-app -I../../../samo-lib/include 
>> -I../../../samo-lib/drivers/include -I../../..//samo-lib/minilzo/ 
>> -I../../../samo-lib/lzma -I../../../samo-lib/fatfs/src 
>> -I../../../samo-lib/fatfs/config/c33/read-write -I. -I. -o main.o
>> main.cpp main.cpp:21:17: error: QtGui: No such file or directory
> 
> maybe you are missing libqt4-dev
> 


Yep, that's what I was missing.  Make worked this time.  Thanks!


Now the only questions left on my current open question list are:


How does one connect to that serial port?  Is there some kind of dongle 
one has to jam in there?


Will the WikiReader work with 16GB cards?  Or larger?



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