Good idea about the wiki. The trouble is most handhelds don't have a compiler installed (they tend to be short on flash). So I run chicken in a chroot environment on a CF card in the Zaurus. (The chroot environment is Debian-arm.)
Ideally the Scheme compiler would run fast on a handheld, and just in case it's not fast enough, it would also be possible to cross-compile Scheme to an ARM binary, on a PC. So far gcc is a tad slow on an ARM (but not too terrible - I do actually use it; maybe it's like running x86 gcc on a 386); and I don't think cross-compiling is practical, is it? If somebody ever finishes the ARM backend for tcc (a very fast C compiler) we could use that on the handheld itself. And you have to be able to afford to actually install it on the handheld. Later I might work on getting chicken into OpenEmbedded, if that hasn't been done yet, but I think I would have to leave out something else in order to have enough space for chicken plus gcc and all of the libs. I also want to try to do it on the OpenMoko phone (announced yesterday) ASAP, but haven't figured out how to get one yet. On 08 Nov 2006 12:17:18 -0200, Mario Domenech Goulart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello John, On Wed, 8 Nov 2006 13:53:46 +0000 john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know there are one or two people out there playing around with > Chicken on handheld devices like the Sharp Zaurus, Nokia 770 etc. > Anyway, I have created a group on orkut (orkut.com) dedicated to this > topic. If you have an orkut account and are interested, please come > and join. If you need an orkut account let me know. How about filling a wiki page with this topic? Maybe at the "Tutorials" section for people getting started to Chicken on handhelds or even a whole section about Chicken on handhelds? I have a SL-5600 borrowed from a friend and an old version of Chicken installed on it (got it from http://www.mneuroth.de/privat/zaurus/chicken.html). But I can't do much with it, since I don't have a compiler installed and admitedly I haven't invested much time on it. I think a wiki section about Chicken on handhelds would be great. Best wishes, Mario _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
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