Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > Up to now, I have been innocently using the vanilla python > that comes with the Linux distribution (Suse in my case). > > For the past few days, I have been playing with a little > device called an eBox - it is basically a 486 with 128Mb > memory, and a 1Gig pcmcia flash drive. > > We want to try to use this as an industrial controller, so > I want to load python onto it. > > So I downloaded the sources, and got them into the box, > over its ethernet connection. > > Then I got stymied - the configure script will not run, > because the "distribution" has no C compiler - it is > basically a kernel, and Busybox, with precious little else. > > So I googled, and I found mobile python, and portable python, > both aimed at windows. - no good to me. > > Adding "embedded" to the Google string is also useless, > as it basically brings up instances of embedding the > interpreter into another app, not for small processors. > > So how does one do a compile of python on one machine > aimed at another one? - All I want is a vanilla installation > with the stuff in all the usual places. And just to make matters > interesting, the two Linux boxes I have available are both > 64 bit dual core animals, one Intel, one AMD... > > I don't need much more than the interpreter, sys, os, sockets > and ctypes. > > Alternatively, where can one find a set of binaries for > 32 bit Linux? > > Looking for some sane advice please.
Look at the gumstix project, they do have a cross-compiled python in there. You should be able to get an idea on how to do that yourself. It involves (or at least did back then) a bit of trickery as the build-process of python uses the freshly created interpreter to pre-compile modules. But it is possible. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
