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Programming on the Zaurus, with specific interest in the Zaurus SL-C1000.

• As opposed to Programming for the Zaurus

See also:

• Zaurus software

  • Has editors and some general tools.

Scripting Languages ∞

• Bash 2.05, ash, sh (default for the zaurus and root users.
• Ruby (Ruby on the Zaurus)

• Tcl

  • on elsix.org
  • http://mneuroth.de/privat/zaurus/tcl.html
  • https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/zaurus — Tcl/Tk notes.

• Perl

  • on elsix.org: 5.6.1-7_arm

• Python:

  • Zaurus Python [ 1 ]
  • Python for arm-linux [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
  • on elsix.org: 2.2
  • Zaurus Python Image
  • python cramfs
    — This looks pretty good.

• Java:

  • on elsix.org: COCOA, the Java BASIC Interpreter for the Zaurus
  • Meanie created a java.cramfs and java.squashfs [ 4 ]

• Squeak:

  • Squeak on elsix.org

• miniscript

  • A simple Java/C++ like script interpreter.

gcc ∞

See gcc

Misc ∞

• development tools for the zaurus (not maintained) — Qt/e, gcc, gideon, GPL, Python, QtStuff

• Native onboard QTE development

  • This is an enhanced version of the zgcc cramfs image. With this image you have all tools you need for onboard QTE development in your hand. The differences to the official zgcc image are:
  • Complete Qtopia/QTE documentation in HTML format included
  • Native ARM versions of qembed, tmake, moc and uic included
  • You need Perl to use tmake. You have to mount this image to /mnt/card/devel. After this you have to source /mnt/card/devel/devel.sh. You can improve the speed if you unpack the image to /mnt/card/devel. This environment will not work anywhere else – it rely upon the /mnt/card/devel directory path
• zgcc, java, forth, misc
• https://sourceforge.net/projects/zports/ [ 5 ] has old libSDL and old libMAD ports.

• tcc

  • Tiny C Compiler. It is supposed to have an ARM architecture port, but I didn’t see it.

• Lush

  • An implementation of the Lisp programming language.

• Scheme48

  • An implementation of Scheme.

• Chicken

  • An implementation of Scheme.
• OCaml

• https://web.archive.org/web/20100218125521/http://zaurus.daemons.gr:80/menaie/pdaxrom/ – There is a mkcramfs and mksquashfs!

  • http://s91215199.onlinehome.us/zaurus/mkcramfs.arm (instructions)

• distcc

  • A program to distribute builds of C, C++, Objective C or Objective C++ code across several machines on a network. distcc should always generate the same results as a local build, is simple to install and use, and is usually much faster than a local compile.
  • notes and an ipk file for doing this on the Zaurus

• Regina REXX 3.3

Notible tools ∞

• Subversion > some info on Subversion

• VisiScript

  • An editor and graphical frontend for various scripting languages.

Notes ∞

• VisiScript

  • A simple graphical frontend for scripting languages like minscript, Python,Ruby, Perl, Tcl,Lisp/Scheme or others.

Footnotes

1. was www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/zaurus/download.php [ ↩ ]
2. an older archive is https://web.archive.org/web/20060615043548/http://www.vanille.de/projects/python.spy[ ↩ ]
3. 2019-11-17 – This guy is still around but this particular project appears to have been abandoned and removed. [ ↩ ]
4. was www.thegrinder.ws/Meanies_XQT/pdaxqtrom/ [ ↩ ]
5. was https://zports.sourceforge.net/ [ ↩ ]