It worked ok, but I never used it to make apps. Ive not tried, but I suspect the real work is making a racket library/interface for the ui stuff.
S On Saturday, September 18, 2010, Martin DeMello <martindeme...@gmail.com> wrote: > How well did it work? I've been playing with Chicken to write Maemo > code, which seems to work pretty well, but I figured Racket would be > pretty heavy for a mobile device. > > martin > > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Stephen De Gabrielle > <stephen.degabrie...@acm.org> wrote: >> FWIW >> I once used scratchbox to cross compile mzscheme to arm >> >> -wikipedia, from Maemo page -> >> The Maemo SDK is based around the Debian-oriented Scratchbox Cross >> Compilation Toolkit, which provides a sandbox environment in which >> development may take place. Scratchbox uses Qemu to emulate an ARM >> processor or sbrsh to remotely execute instructions. >> Scratchbox-compatible rootstraps are available for both x86 and ARM, >> so the majority of development and debugging takes place on x86, with >> final packaging being for ARM >> -- >> >> On Thursday, September 16, 2010, Eli Barzilay <e...@barzilay.org> wrote: >>> On Sep 15, Neil Van Dyke wrote: >>>> Regarding Racket building for ARM, when you need to build it often >>>> but ARM is relatively slow... I wonder how much work to get >>>> cross-compile of the Racket toolset working. >>> >>> Even if the C core part is cross compiled (there's more stuff in the >>> collections), the main point is compiling and running the files on the >>> machine, so cross compilation (if possible) will certainly speed >>> things up, but will not make it a less-effective testing tool. >>> >>> -- >>> ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: >>> http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! >>> _________________________________________________ >>> For list-related administrative tasks: >>> http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users >>> >> >> -- >> >> -- >> Stephen De Gabrielle >> stephen.degabrie...@acm.org >> Telephone +44 (0)20 85670911 >> Mobile +44 (0)79 85189045 >> http://www.degabrielle.name/stephen >> _________________________________________________ >> For list-related administrative tasks: >> http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users > -- -- Stephen De Gabrielle stephen.degabrie...@acm.org Telephone +44 (0)20 85670911 Mobile +44 (0)79 85189045 http://www.degabrielle.name/stephen _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
