Hi,
ext Hendrik Boom wrote:
> Are there any ports available for programming languages so that
> development can be done on the n800 itself? Programming in the wild, so
> to speak, instead of cross-compiling at the desk?
Well, there are some interpreted languages that are installed
by default on the device:
- Busybox:
- POSIX shell
- Awk
- Browser:
- JavaScript
- Flash action script
All of them offer control structures, variables etc. For example shell:
x=1; for i in $(seq 20); do x=$(($x+$x)); echo $x; done
> I have hopes for gcc, or lisp, or something that can handle data
> structures and static typing. I've noticed there are a bunch of guile
> files as part of my n800 system. Is there also a standalone guile
> interpreter?
>
> I've seen a report that gcc runs out of memory rather quickly on an
> n770. Does the same apply to n800? And which memory does it run out
> of? RAM? swap? disk?
I would assume RAM. When compiling C++ code, GCC can in some cases
take even half a gig of RAM. The development packages can take
a bit of disk also.
> It seems rather ridiculous that a machine with 258MB should have
> insufficient storage for programming ... back in the 70's we could do
> some pretty sophisticated stuff on Unix on a 64K PDP-11. Times sure
> change, don't they?
Well, the GCC assembler doesn't require that much RAM, but its
set of modern high level language abstractions is pretty spartan. ;-)
For example Lua would be pretty small (also interpreted)
and should be quite easy to build for the target device:
http://www.lua.org/
Python can be found from the repositories and it has bindings
for Gtk, SDL etc.
- Eero
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