build image for dell axim

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Can I build an embedded xp image for a dell axim x50? I have a windows 32
bit application that I need to run from a pda and cannot figure out how to
get it to work. Thought maybe I could install xpe and than run the app.
What do ya'll think.

Thanks in advance,
Eric
 
From the "might just be crazy enough to work" department...

You could get VNC Viewer for PPC
(http://www.cs.utah.edu/~midgley/wince/vnc.html), and run a VNC server
(www.realvnc.com) on a PC attached to the same wireless network. I do
this with my wife's Axim X3i and it works like a champ. It can be a
bit slow (802.11b is not exactly optimal for pushing screen caps in
real time), but it gets the job done. The app would run on the PC's
processor, but input/output goes through the PPC.

Of course, the *sane* thing to do would be, as Brad says, to port the
app to Windows Mobile. If you're an MSDN dev, you should already have
access to embedded VC++, though of course that assumes that you
actually *wrote* the app, or at least have source. If all you can get
is the Win32 binary... well, see above. Put quite simply, a Win32
binary will never run on the x50 unless some very enterprising
individual makes a Win32 emulator for XScale. That's not a project I
intend to undertake anytime soon.
 
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