jefm wrote:
Hi, 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.
Yes unfortunately its quite difficult. Been there, stopped at some point. But for arm however you have some chances, see below.
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 ? What are the chances of an 'officially' supported ARM-Linux Python distribution ? (or is it safer to wait for industrial spec Intel Atom boards to avoid the cross compilation altogether ?
Easier for sure.
What would it take for the Linux version of Python to be easily cross compiled (i.e. would the Linux-Python maintainers be willing to include and maintain cross-compilation specific functions) ?
Either throw the automake stuff away or correct it accordingly to support target platforms different from build platform.
Let's say we can get it done. How is the performance and stability of a working Python on an embedded ARM-Linux system ?
Its working quite nice on my Psion 5MX installed via debian packages. So I believe you should be able to work from debian source packages since they are cross compiles as far as I know.
Does cross compiling Python automatically include the standard Python library, or is that yet another adventure ?
The standard lib is in python mostly so no worries. The only problematic part can be various C extensions like zlib, curses, pthreads ... which are all optional anyway. Regards Tino
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