Re: [microblaze-uclinux] Python on MicroBlaze-uClinux

[John Williams <jwilliams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ivan wrote:
> Hi again John,
> 
> while i am waiting for my ethernet board, i try to compile different
> applications of the uClinux distribution to check that they run fine
> over MicroBlaze. Particularly i was interesting in python. I compile it
> and it works fine!!! :)

It's nice when it just works like that...

A successful build of PHP for uClinux was also recently announced:

http://www.ucdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/29/2316221&mode=thread

> But there is a problem... python is not small, about 221K compressed
> (588K if not), and the external modules are compiled in a big library
> libpython2.0.a (about 3.0M) :(

ouch.  I think this is pretty common.  The standard Gnu tools are great, 
but not always developed with small size in mind...  This is what 
inspired the uClibc and busybox projects.

Cheers,

John



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