[PythonCE] graphical libs for pocket pc

[Michael Foord]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Heller" <theller at python.net>
To: "Voidspace" <mike at pcblokes.com>
Cc: <pythonce at python.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 6:00 PM
Subject: Re: [PythonCE] graphical libs for pocket pc


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> Well, it seems far from trivial.  It requires 'porting' libffi to that
> platform.  From what I read in the libffi readme, the ARM CPU is
> supported, on Linux.
>
> When I changed the Windows code to use libffi instead of my homegrown
> solution, I started up a i386 Linux, ran libffi's configure command, and
> took the resulting source tree to windows.  Then I had to convert the
> code from gcc assembler syntax to MSVC assembler, and had to adjust
> other code.  Without a source code debugger it would be impossible.
>
> So, I assume something similar has to be done for the ARM, and very good
> knowledge of the CPU is required.  OTOH, I haven't looked around if
> someone has already done this, or some of the work.
>
> Thomas
>

Well beyond me then - although it is a library that would be particularly
useful for the pocketPC platform... rats.

Currently in order to do any user interaction you are forced to use the PPC
Tkinter distribution - which is huge..... (relatively speaking.)

Regards,

Fuzzy

http://www.voidspace.org.uk/atlantibots/pythonutils.html

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