MeeCoLay

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Now you are ready to install meecolay !  
Now you are ready to install meecolay !  
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  apt-get install meecolay*
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  apt-get install meecolay
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Will install meecolay, meecolay-core, libraries packs and the package dependencies.
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Will install almost everything needed.
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Now you should have
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Meecolay ships with its own included repo if you haven't manually installed newer version of glib2.0-0 or sqlite3, you may want to download them with
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  /opt/meecolay/
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  apt-get install libglib2.0-0 sqlite3 libsqlite3-0
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and please check
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Those packages should be automatically installed when you try to correct dependencies
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  /opt/meecolay/libs/
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  apt-get install -f
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if that directory does not contain libraries that means something goes wrong during installation so you need to reinstall them or download and installing the debians manually.
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Note: that if the package gets uninstalled after this command, you need to modify its DEBIAN/control. Uninstall it, otherwise you wont be able to install anything else !. Modify the depends install again should be eased up in the future.
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All fine ? now you also need to update your Glib, after meecolay installation the package developer repository is automatically added to your repositories list ! http://marmistrz.net63.net/meecolay/.
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Issue this command to update your Glib.
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apt-get install libglib2.0-0=2.22*
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  /opt/meecolay's owner should be user.
  /opt/meecolay's owner should be user.
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Now you are ready to try MeeGo games and apps using this command
Now you are ready to try MeeGo games and apps using this command
  meecolay /path/to/executable  
  meecolay /path/to/executable  
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If you found some bugs during your tries please report them to the package bugtracker https://bugs.maemo.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MeeCoLay.
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Missing libraries and bugs should be reported in bugtracker https://bugs.maemo.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MeeCoLay
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And if you have some missing libraries when trying to run meecolay please tell that in meecolay thread http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=84482.
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Revision as of 16:58, 13 September 2012

What is MeeCoLay?

MeeCoLay stands for MeeGo Compatibility Layer. It allows to run Harmattan apps on Fremantle.

Configuration

This requires a bit more preparation than preenv. Why?

MeeGo libraries are sometimes very hard to be built under Fremantle autobuilder. I was playing around a bit with applauncherd. It has insane dependencies, a lot of nokia-binaries, some packages that are too old in fremantle.

It came out that using a precompiled libstdc++6 4.6.1 that can be found in a TMO thread and precompiled MeeGo binaries you can run many MeeGo apps (e.g. allegro, SzybkiDemot, ebay bargains - the first two are Polish apps)

As compiling all the stuff requires lots of (often unneeded packages), I decided I'll upload the libs onto my server and they'll be in the end downloaded automatically.

First preparations

First of all you need to have an updated packages list and extras-devel repository enabled, as meecolay always having new updates, new dependencies, new libraries packs.

Update your package list using application manager via "update" button or using terminal 

apt-get update

Now you are ready to install meecolay ! 

apt-get install meecolay

Will install almost everything needed. Meecolay ships with its own included repo if you haven't manually installed newer version of glib2.0-0 or sqlite3, you may want to download them with 

apt-get install libglib2.0-0 sqlite3 libsqlite3-0

Those packages should be automatically installed when you try to correct dependencies 

apt-get install -f

Note: that if the package gets uninstalled after this command, you need to modify its DEBIAN/control. Uninstall it, otherwise you wont be able to install anything else !. Modify the depends install again should be eased up in the future. 

/opt/meecolay's owner should be user.

Now you are ready to try MeeGo games and apps using this command 

meecolay /path/to/executable

Missing libraries and bugs should be reported in bugtracker https://bugs.maemo.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MeeCoLay

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