Porting compilers and interpreters to Maemo 5
 

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?

Re: Porting compilers and interpreters to Maemo 5
 

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.

Re: Porting compilers and interpreters to Maemo 5
 

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?

Re: Porting compilers and interpreters to Maemo 5
 

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

add this to sources.list or the Application Manager

Re: Porting compilers and interpreters to Maemo 5
 

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.