[Openmcl-devel] Clozuer 1.7 on Nokia N900

[Gary Byers]

If you or anyone else still needs this, I put a 1.7 armcl compiled
on an Ubuntu 09.04 system in:

<ftp://ftp.clozure.com/pub/release/1.7/lisp-kernel-for-older-ARM-systems/armcl>

I actually have a Nokia N900, and verified that this kernel runs on that machine.

Our ability to do this sort of thing is somewhat limited.  Compared to a lot
of Linux software, the CCL kernel is actually pretty easy to build; if you
can compile a simple command-line "hello, world" program for your device,
you probably have everything you need to build the CCL kernel.

On Wed, 23 Nov 2011, nitralime wrote:

> Thank you for your prompt answer!
>
> I have already compiled a few software packages
> either directly on my N900 or on a chrooted Ubuntu/Debian
> in the past. That should not be a big deal as long as the compilation
> itself goes smoothly.
>
> If you have already a working version for N900,
> I would prefer to install it. Otherwise, I have to
> bite the bullet and compile it myself:-(
>
> Regards
> Nik
>
>
> On 11/23/2011 03:40 PM, Gary Byers wrote:
>> The short answer is that the N900 uses a fairly old Linux distribution
>> and the 1.7 binaries were built on a newer distibution.  (I think that
>> the specific issue is that some of the startup code in the CCL kernel
>> uses THUMB2 instructions and the N900's Linux kernel doesn't support
>> THUMB2 binaries, if anyone cares.)
>> 
>> The workaround is to simply compile the CCL kernel on an older
>> machine.  That may not be so simple in the case of the N900; some
>> people are able to compile C code on and for the N900 by running a
>> compatible version of Debian in a chrooted environment, and there are
>> cross-compilation setups that run on desktop/laptop machines.  (Both
>> of these things are a lot of fuss to go through just to build a fairly
>> small C/assembler program.)
>> 
>> If you aren't set up to do this, let me know; I'm pretty sure that
>> I have a machine that can compile a binary that the N900 can run.
>> (For that matter, I have an N900, too, and I'm pretty sure that
>> I've run into this issue.)
>> 
>> On Wed, 23 Nov 2011, nitralime wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello!
>>> 
>>> I have recently installed Clozure 1.7 on a Nokia N900.
>>> Unfortunately it doesn't work! Calling "armcl from
>>> the command line returns the following error message:
>>> 
>>> "bash: ./armcl: cannot execute binary file"
>>> 
>>> The Clozure 1.6 works without any problems!
>>> 
>>> Am I missing something?
>>> 
>>> Regards
>>> Nik
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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