From: Paul Duncan <pabs@...>
Date: 2002-06-22T05:34:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby for Sharp Zarus pda

* Henry T. So Jr. (henryso@panix.com) wrote:
> 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?

You can, but you don't need to:
http://familiar.handhelds.org/feeds/unstable/ruby_1.6.5-1_arm.ipk

I've tested it with some small scripts on my iPaq and it appears to work
fine.  As for Tk, there is a port out there, but you'll need to install
and configure Xfb.  I don't know of any efforts to write a Tk to
QT/Embedded interface, but I haven't looked very hard either ;).

> > Tobi

[snipped]

> 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.

Seems to work okay for me.

> Henry
> 
> --
> Henry T. So, Jr.

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