From: "Henry T. So Jr." <henryso@...>
Date: 2002-06-16T00:24:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby for Sharp Zarus pda

On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 11:34:53PM +0900, Tobias Reif wrote:
> Thomas A. Reilly wrote:
> 
> >Would anyone know how to port Ruby and TK to the Sharp Zarus?
> >The processor is fast and with memory cards will support over 128 megs.
> 
> 
> It's Linux, so shouldn't be able to compile Ruby on it?
> 
> 
> Tobi

I tried to cross-compile Ruby using the available tools, but I ran into
some difficulty because the build process compiles miniruby and uses
that during the build process.  Since I was cross-compiling, the
miniruby that is created will not run on the build host.  I was able to
get around that (sort-of) by compiling Ruby for the build host and
keeping that on the path.  However since the architectures are not
exactly the same, there were still some problems, especially compiling
the extensions.

There are other things which I haven't had time to try yet; like a
phased approach where I compile the base ruby, get it onto the Zaurus,
and then create the extension Makefiles on the Zaurus; or even perhaps
getting GCC onto the Zaurus (which is availble) and then compiling Ruby
directly on the hardware.

Also, there is an .ipk of Ruby 1.6.5 available with the Familiar
distribution (apparently converted from the Debian-ARM distribution) but
I haven't tried it.

Henry

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Henry T. So, Jr.