EzTerry's Ramblings's TrackBacks http://devnull.name/blog/software/wrtpython <p> So I now have a python package for openwrt! The only problem with it: Storage space. </p> <p>However if you have a USB flash card with ~20MB free it will work!</p> <p> This means I'm playing with it on a ASUS WL-500g Premium, but not my own WRT54GS </p> <p>from a ram perspective simple things seem to run in about 1MB, while help/pydoc use 5MB. I have yet to go much beyond that. However given this requirement I doubt it will run well on a WRT with < 32MB of ram </p> <h2>Installing</h2> <p> To make reinstallation and removal easier I did package the thing into an ipkg. however this one has some pre-installation steps</p> <ul> <li>symlink /opt to a location on your external media eg. ln -s /path/to/usb/key /opt</li> <li>install the ipkg to the root destination (default): ipkg install python24.ipk</li> </ul> <p>to run you may use /usr/bin/python or /usr/bin/python2.4 both symlink to /opt/local/bin/python2.4 In addition you can find all the python libraries and modules in /opt/local/lib/python2.4</p> <h2>download</h2> <p>The ipkg described above can be found at <a href="http://devnull.name/code/python24.ipk">here</a></p> <p>This is a cross compile of python 2.4.4 from here: http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.4.4/Python-2.4.4.tgz</p> <p>No changes outside of modifying the auto-generated make file after configure to use my x86 python to help build the modules (rather than the mips python on an x86)</p> <p>Also note the ipkg was manually constructed, so my apologies for not having a build script</p>