jefm <jef.mangelsch...@gmail.com> wrote: > We are looking to use Python on an embedded Linux ARM system. > What I gather from googling the subject is that it is not that > straight forward (a fair amount of patching & hacking). > Nobody out there that has done it claims it is easy, which makes me > worried. > > I haven't seen a description on porting Python 2.6 or 3.0 yet. Is it > much different than for the earlier versions (the latest I have seem > is Python 2.5). > > Does it matter whether Python is cross compiled to Linux 2.4 or Linux > 2.6 ? > > Can anyone point to a howto they know works well ?
I gave up trying to cross compile and just used the python from debian ARM which works very well. > What are the chances of an 'officially' supported ARM-Linux Python > distribution ? Depending on your definition of "officially" and "supported" :- http://packages.debian.org/lenny/arm/python2.5/download > (or is it safer to wait for industrial spec Intel Atom boards to avoid > the cross compilation altogether ? We often compile stuff on our 200 MHz TS-7200 boards. We NFS mount the build environment, type make then go out for lunch ;-) For builds of our application (which embeds python) we normally use the headers and libraries from the debian ARM packages and cross compile on something a big beefier. > How is the performance and stability of a working Python on an > embedded ARM-Linux system ? Works very well. > Does cross compiling Python automatically include the standard > Python library, or is that yet another adventure ? If you use the debian compiled version then you get the lot. -- Nick Craig-Wood <n...@craig-wood.com> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
