Install Python for MIPS
2 June, 2010 - 17:43
Hi,
I have just flashed my recently acquired livebox with the HAH firmware - great instructions guys.
I see that you have a download on your site for usr.tar.bz2 which includes the gcc compiler also as well as Python runtime. Is it just a case of extracting the files into the /opt directory?
How do you run a python script?
Thanks,
John
The usr.tar.bz2 bundle is too large to fit in the available flash memory. What you need to do it format up on a USB memory stick with a filesystem and expand the contents into it. I suggest you do this on a full linux distro. Once you've got your tools on the memory stick you can mount it up locally. Mounting a USB drive is covered on the wiki.
http://www.dbzoo.com/livebox/development#usb_filesystem_support
Alternatively you an expand these tool onto you linux computer and then just NFS mount the location onto your livebox.
http://www.dbzoo.com/livebox/development#nfs_mounting
If you are using the MIPS native GCC its also a good idea to create some additional swap space using a memory stick too.
You might find it easier to just cross-compile on your i386 machine into an NFS mounted directory and then run them directly on your livebox. This is how I tend to do development.
How to run python... Just like any other python build.
# python python_script.py
Brett