For some time I have an interest in Palm PDA devices, since I really enjoy finding information about different kinds of computing devices in general, mostly microcomputers from 1970s, 1980s I find personal digital assistants very interesting too. I am not quite sure whether Palm devices can be called retro computers yet, but it is my sort of version of retrocomputing. As with other computing devices an integral part of Palm PDA is its software. Normally software will be running on real hardware, but there are other cases when software can be running in emulated environment for example when writing, testing or debugging software. In this post I am going to document steps I did to build emulator software - Palm OS Emulator from source code available at https://sourceforge.net/projects/pose/ in GNU/Linux environment i.e. Debian operating system. Here source package is available in rpm format, which itself can be compiled automatically without bothering with its internals, but what I am going to do is explore what commands are being executed and then attempt to do similar steps.
Software building process will happen inside chroot environment created with Debootstrap. It is a tool which will install a Debian base system into a subdirectory of another, already installed system.
More technical details and additional information will be available in next article.