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| − | Supposedly there are patches that will allow you cross compile python. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get it to work. The problem is that the Python build system uses the binary it generates to finish the build process - meaning that in a cross compiling situation you have to build an arm binary *and* a localhost binary (i686-linux-gnu or whatever). | + | Supposedly there are patches that will allow you cross compile python. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get it to work. The problem is that the Python build system uses the binary it generates to finish the build process - meaning that in a cross compiling situation you have to build an arm binary *and* a localhost binary (i686-linux-gnu or whatever).<br/> |
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| + | A good starting point is http://www.mail-archive.com/patches@python.org/msg03662.html. | ||
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| + | ''' using an existing python binary ''' | ||
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| + | Luckily a number of existing linux platforms already support builds for the arm-linux. It is fairly painless to grab a binary from one of these systems and make it work on the chumby. | ||
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Revision as of 10:58, 4 September 2006
why Python?
- because writing is C sucks
- your time is valuable
- once a python zealot, always a python zealot.
Compiling python from source
Supposedly there are patches that will allow you cross compile python. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get it to work. The problem is that the Python build system uses the binary it generates to finish the build process - meaning that in a cross compiling situation you have to build an arm binary *and* a localhost binary (i686-linux-gnu or whatever).
A good starting point is http://www.mail-archive.com/patches@python.org/msg03662.html.
using an existing python binary
Luckily a number of existing linux platforms already support builds for the arm-linux. It is fairly painless to grab a binary from one of these systems and make it work on the chumby.
