Sharp Zaurus

darobin on 2003-02-06T11:32:37

A cool thing about working for a company that targets constrained devices is that once in a while you get to play with cool toys. In this case, it's a Sharp Zaurus. Linux, Qt, Opera... very cool. And of course, bash and a host of unixy tools.

Much to my disappointment however, no Perl. There's about 28 free megs in there... has anyone managed to get a (small, prolly few modules) Perl to run there? I'dlove to know :)

Update: Perl is available on the Zaurus, as in fact any Linux app. This one was created directly from a Debian package, after the removal of docs and such things (which brings the package down to circa 1mef): get it from http://www.frontgarden.net/user/matthew/technical/zaurus/perl.html.


Zaurus

rafael on 2003-02-06T12:26:12

AFAIK Perl hasn't be ported on Zaurus. Is it necessary to use a cross compiler to produce Zaurus executables ? Perl 5.8.0 has an experimental support for cross-compilation.

Re:Zaurus

darobin on 2003-02-06T13:07:31

In the meantime I found out it's a lot simpler :) You can compile for Linux and copy. Perl is available, and it was created straight from the Debian package (after the removal of docs)!