Dark Liquid

I’ve been playing around with Appcelerator’s Titanium system and so far it’s been interesting. I haven’t done very much in the way of app development yet as I am still learning the APIs but I finally managed to get it to run under Linux (Ubunty Jaunty specifically) which is a plus!

How to get the Titanium Installer to run on Ubuntu Jaunty

Basically, I needed to run the following command:

sudo aptitude install libcurl4-openssl-dev

which installs the libcurl4 with OpenSSL library and associated development bits that the Titanium Installer needs to run. The error message that pops up isn’t the most helpful for working this out, complaining about a missing CURL_OPENSSL_3 symbol or some such thing. Perhaps some better explanation would be useful in their installer so it can suggest how you might fix these things.

I just need to install the android SDK under Linux now (I’ve already tested things out under OSX with both the android and iPhone 3.0 SDKs and it all seems good).

I might try working on developing Windows apps (which I need to do as part of my course) under Linux using wine for cross-compilation. That would be awesome.