About python on RTEMS

[Chris Johns]

On 22/05/2015 2:13 am, Albert Huang wrote:
> Chris Johns <chrisj at rtems.org> writes:
> 
>> On 9/05/2015 1:10 am, Albert Huang wrote:
>>>
>>> Although Python is not for real-time computing, but it's good for rapid
>>> prototyping. I couldn't find much information about python on RTEMS, and
>>> it's kind of very old if there is some.
>>
>> I have used Python on RTEMS to interface to things like POP mailboxes or
>> to send SMTP email. I did not implement any real-time code. It worked
>> really well and was stable.
> 
> That's great! Is it bare Python interpretor or including libraries?
>

The full Python with some of the C libraries statically linked and what
ever Python libraries you wanted.

>>
>>> Does anybody try to compile
>>> Python on RTEMS to run the interpreter as a task? Will it be hard to do
>>> that? Thanks.
>>
>> Last time I looked Python's configure phase ran code on the host and it
>> did not support cross-compiling cleanly. I implemented a separate build
>> script and placed that in a directory called 'rtems' in the Python source.
>>
>> It is not overly difficult to port if you have done this sort of porting
>> before.
> 
> I haven't done this kind of porting before, and I don't have any
> clue. Is it possible to have some tutorial somewhere? Could you point me
> out? Thank you very much!
> 

Sorry I do not know of any doco on the topic. I suppose it is something
I have just learnt to do over the years.

Chris