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Vincent Fiack made a script to build the CVS version of Ruby for the Zaurus. You will need to have the cross compiler installed and a x86 version of ruby to run it.

See Programming for the Zaurus for cross-compiling help.

http://web.archive.org/web/20030321084413/http://equinoxe.dnsalias.org/PERSO/zruby.rb

The author, Vincent Fiack has disappeared. See also this ruby-talk thread.

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#!/bin/env ruby

def fetch()
  `cvs -z4 -d :pserver:anonymous:anonymous@cvs.ruby-lang.org:/src co ruby`
end

def setArmEnv()
  ENV["CROSSCOMPILE"]="/opt/Embedix/tools"
  ENV["QPEDIR"]="/opt/Qtopia/sharp"
  ENV["QTDIR"]="/opt/Qtopia/sharp"
  ENV["PATH"]="#{ENV['QTDIR']}/bin:#{ENV['QPEDIR']}/bin:#{ENV['CROSSCOMPILE']}/bin:#{ENV['PATH']}"
  ENV["TMAKEPATH"]="/opt/Qtopia/tmake/lib/qws/linux-sharp-g++/"
  ENV["LD_LIBRARY_PATH"]="#{ENV['QTDIR']}/lib:#{ENV['LD_LIBRARY_PATH']}"
end

def editCompiler(filename)
  puts "*** EDIT MAKEFILE: #{filename} ***"

  data = ""

  File.open(filename) do |f|
    data = f.readlines.join
    data.gsub! 'gcc', 'arm-linux-gcc'
  end

  File.open(filename, "w+") do |f|
    f.write data
  end
end

def compile()
  puts "*** STARTING COMPILATION ***"

  Dir.chdir("ruby")
  system "autoconf"
  system "./configure --build=arm-linux --disable-ipv6 --prefix=/tmp/zruby"

  setArmEnv()

  editCompiler('Makefile')
  editCompiler('ext/extmk.rb')

  puts "*** FIRST STAGE MAKE ***"
  system "make"

  system "cp /usr/bin/ruby miniruby"
  system "rm -rf ext/dl"

  puts "*** SECOND STAGE MAKE ***"
  system "make"

  puts "*** MAKE TEMP INSTALL ***"
  system "make install"
  Dir.chdir("..");
end

def strip()
  olddir = Dir.pwd
  Dir.chdir("/tmp/zruby")
  
  system "rm -r man"
  system "arm-linux-strip bin/ruby"
  system "arm-linux-strip lib/ruby/1.7/arm-linux/*.so"
  system "arm-linux-strip lib/ruby/1.7/arm-linux/*.a"
  system "arm-linux-strip lib/ruby/1.7/arm-linux/*/*.so"

  Dir.chdir(olddir)
end

def package()
  olddir = Dir.pwd
  Dir.chdir("/tmp/")
  
  system "tar zcvf zruby.tgz zruby"
  system "mv zruby.tgz #{olddir}"

  Dir.chdir(olddir)
end

fetch()
compile()
strip()
package()