Porting compilers and interpreters to Maemo 5 - maemo.org

antoarts | # 1 | 2011-03-13, 10:52 | Report

For developers, the N900 is probably the greatest device, or at least so it is for me. I mean, what other device has a terminal window, Vim, a Python interpreter and the ability to chroot into Debian?

While learning a new programming language, I have often been very happy to be able to try things out directly on my phone; when I don't have another computer available. There are still a lack of ports of some compilers and/or interpreters. The ones I am myself interested in include:

GCC (for C)
(MIT/GNU) Scheme
(GNU) Forth
Scala

I would like to know what the interest for different compilers and interpreters are. Are anyone interested in porting some of these? I could probably try to port some myself as well.

My questions are:

Are you interested in the ones listed above, and/or some others (which?)?
Are you willing to port some of them?

Zas | # 2 | 2011-03-13, 11:07 | Report

You can install gcc, g++, make etc. with apt-get.
I sometimes code some c or c++ on the device so I install everything I need for that with "apt-get install minutils gcc g++ make build-essentials" aswell as sdl devel libs. Before compiling I just have to make sure I have enough space in temp "export TMPDIR=/home/user/MyDocs/tmp".

I think there is a way to chroot into a development image, but I'm not sure plus with this I can get to coding fast and simple.

antoarts | # 3 | 2011-03-13, 11:20 | Report

Originally Posted by Zas View Post

You can install gcc, g++, make etc. with apt-get.
I sometimes code some c or c++ on the device so I install everything I need for that with "apt-get install minutils gcc g++ make build-essentials" aswell as sdl devel libs. Before compiling I just have to make sure I have enough space in temp "export TMPDIR=/home/user/MyDocs/tmp".

I think there is a way to chroot into a development image, but I'm not sure plus with this I can get to coding fast and simple.

I tried sudo apt-get install gcc, with updated repositories and extras-devel enabled, but it couldn't find the package. Which repository is it located in?

JadeH | # 4 | 2011-03-19, 20:58 | Report

Maemo 5 does have a GCC package (and other related developpment packages like make), it's in the sdk repository

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deb http://repository.maemo.org fremantle/sdk free non-free

add this to sources.list or the Application Manager

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Mentalist Traceur | # 5 | 2011-03-19, 21:15 | Report

There's also an SDK Tools repository,which you get to by replacing "sdk" in the above line with "tools", if I recall correctly.

You can easily just install this stuff with apt-get, the problem is none of it is optified so it eats a healthy chunk of rootfs space. When I installed gcc and the like (before my last reflash, haven't gotten around to it since), I manually optified all the libs/binaries, but yeah. That part's a PITA.