Cross-compiling Python for ARM?

[Gilles]

Hello

I tried running uWSGI on an ARM-based appliance, but it fails.

Apparently, it could be due to the official Python 2.6.6 interpreter
in the depot not being compiled the way uWSGI expects it to be:

../configure --enable-shared; make; make install;
www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=15370

I see Python mentioned in /usr/lib and /usr/share, and was wondering
if all it'd take to solve this issue, is just to cross-compile the
interpreter and the rest is just CPU-agnostic Python scripts.

Just in case, here's the output:
www.pastebin.com/wJHjBrfn

Thank you.

 

[Terry Jan Reedy]

Hello

I tried running uWSGI on an ARM-based appliance, but it fails.

Apparently, it could be due to the official Python 2.6.6 interpreter
in the depot not being compiled the way uWSGI expects it to be:

./configure --enable-shared; make; make install;
www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=15370

I see Python mentioned in /usr/lib and /usr/share, and was wondering
if all it'd take to solve this issue, is just to cross-compile the
interpreter and the rest is just CPU-agnostic Python scripts.

Just in case, here's the output:
www.pastebin.com/wJHjBrfn

I believe some cross-compile support was added to 2.7.4 but I do not
know the exact nature.

 

[Anssi Saari]

I see Python mentioned in /usr/lib and /usr/share, and was wondering
if all it'd take to solve this issue, is just to cross-compile the
interpreter and the rest is just CPU-agnostic Python scripts.

I suppose. In any case, cross compiling Python shouldn't be that hard. I
just recently built 2.7.3 for my OpenWRT router since the packaged
Python didn't have readline support (some long standing linking issue
with readline and ncurses and uClibc).

 

[Gilles]

In any case, cross compiling Python shouldn't be that hard. I
just recently built 2.7.3 for my OpenWRT router since the packaged
Python didn't have readline support (some long standing linking issue
with readline and ncurses and uClibc).

Thanks guys. Turns out the error was not due to Python, so the ARM
version available in the Debian depot is fine.