The pilot-link package provides a suite of tools containing a series of conduits, libraries, and language bindings for moving information to and from your Palm device and your desktop or server/workstation system, as well as across a network.
Download (HTTP): http://downloads.pilot-link.org/pilot-link-0.11.8.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/linux/mirrors/gentoo/distfiles/pilot-link-0.11.8.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 586f84add601e8b86da3093ab784e997
Download size: 649 KB
Estimated disk space required: 15 MB
Estimated build time: 0.5 SBU
libpng-1.2.8, JDK-1.5.0, Tcl-8.4.11, Python-2.4.1 and Electric Fence
You may need to configure the “USB_SERIAL_VISOR” device into the kernel before your system can communicate with your Palm device. Add this device by enabling the following kernel parameter setting and rebuilding the kernel (and modules, if applicable):
Device Drivers: USB support: USB Serial Converter support: USB Handspring Visor / Palm m50x / Sony Client Driver
For additional information about connecting your USB Palm device, see: http://www.pilot-link.org/README.usb.
Install pilot-link by running the following commands:
patch -Np1 -i ../pilot-link-0.11.8-bindings_fix-1.patch && ./configure --prefix=/usr && make
To test the results, issue: make check.
Now, as the root user:
make install
--with-perl --with-java --with-tcl=/usr/lib --with-python: Use any or all of these options to enable the respective language bindings desired.
Last updated on 2005-08-01 13:29:19 -0600