Programming, Ruby + Sharp Zaurus SL-series >

Specific for the Zaurus SL-C1000.

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• zruby.rb

The Essentials ∞

I want this stuff working on pdaXrom and weeXpc, preferably as ipks:

• The latest Ruby

  • 1.8.5

• rubygems

  • Easily installed from source.

• ncurses > ncurses-ruby

  • I can’t build it without ncurses-devel. I think I also need ruby-devel.
  • Why can’t this just be a gem which “just works”?!

• The latest ruby-devel

  • I have 1.8.3
  • But I’m not sure if I need it. Maybe for ncurses?

gems ∞

• highline

  • Works fine

Ruby itself ∞

• http://www.focv.com/ipkg/

  • They have the latest Ruby.

• I found some ruby_1.8.3 and -devel packages:

  • ruby_1.8.3-preview1-1_arm.ipk
  • ruby-devel_1.8.3-preview1-1_arm.ipk

• shimi.info: Zaurus/Ruby

  • The ruby-devel link is broken.
  • I wanted to email the webmaster, but I needed to sign up to see his profile. But I wasn’t allowed to sign up. =/

• elsi.org

  • 11/16/2004 upload
  • 1.6
  • 1.7.3

• zaurus-ja

  • Ruby is included in this effort. But I guess they just don’t care enough to keep up-to-date. Also, this project is explicitly for the SL-5×00, SL-A300, SL-B500 and SL-C700 so there might be incompatibilities or (more likely) missing optimizations. Plus, they probably have Japanese-language versions!
  • ruby_1.8.0-1_arm.ipk (2003-08-26)
  • ruby-qte 0.5.2 (2005-02-03)

Building Ruby from Source ∞

(to be researched – see Zaurus programming)

Related ∞

• SimpleZDB

  • A Ruby extension module providing the simple access to ZDB

Archive ∞

For the Sharp Zaurus SL-series Cacko ROM, I use these packages:

 ruby_1.8.0-1_arm.ipk
 ruby-qte_0.5.1-1_arm.ipk

* rubygems from rubyforge -- I can't get it to work!
 ! openssl-dev
 ! openssl-extras
 libgcrypt1_1.1.9-4_arm.ipk

https://web.archive.org/web/20070227040230/http://mail.pdaxrom.org/contrib/fabian/ruby_1.8.4_armv5tel.ipk — Supposedly has everything. I don’t know what the dependencies are.

• www.pdaxrom.org/unstable/ruby_1.8.2_armv5tel.ipk (not archived remotely, likely archived by me somewhere)

• www.pdaxrom.org/unstable/ruby-gtk2_0.10.1_armv5tel.ipk (not archived remotely, likely archived by me somewhere)

What works:

1.8.4 works alone. I know that with the gtk thing and downloading the rubygems source I can get the install done, but the post-install will die. Regardless, gem will work!

I can’t install any .gem files though. I get:

ERROR:  Error installing gem [filename.gem]: invalid date

What fails:

• Installing ruby 1.8.2 from wherever I got it won’t work. I get a mess of errors trying to install rubygems from source. Installing ruby-gtk2 0.10.1 changed nothing.

• Installing ruby 1.8.0-1 from Cacko’s feed gave the same wacky string of errors when trying to install rubygems from source. Installing ruby-qte 0.5.1-1 changed nothing. It said it requires libcrypto.so.0.9.6 so I installed libgcrypt1_1.1.9-4_arm.ipk .. nothing changed.

notes:

• https://thata.hatenadiary.org/entries/2005/06/15 [ 1 ] — Download ruby 1.8.3preview
• https://web.archive.org/web/20190807143804/http://www.caulfei.demon.co.uk:80/zaurus/ — Download MySQL
• https://thata.hatenadiary.org/entries/2005/07/04 [ 2 ] — other stuff

• https://web.archive.org/web/20080514235107/http://digit.que.ne.jp/visit/index.cgi?Linux%A5%B6%A5%A6%A5%EB%A5%B9%2F%A5%C0%A5%A6%A5%F3%A5%ED%A1%BC%A5%C9 — libcrypt and other downloads.

Footnotes

1. was http://d.hatena.ne.jp/thata/20050615#1118846557 [ ↩ ]
2. was http://d.hatena.ne.jp/thata/20050704#1120464082 [ ↩ ]