On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Martin Drautzburg <Martin.Drautzburg at web.de
> wrote:

> I just bought a Sharp SL-C760 Linux PDA and I would really like to run
> Squeak
> on it and write my own PIM application. I don't know how big an image I can
> run there, so I am looking for a small image. So far I tried the following:
>
>
> I suppose I could live with an MVC only image.
>
> Is anyone using Squeak on a handheld? Could you give me some pointers to a
> suitable image file or instructions how to build one myself?
>


A while ago, I ran Squeak on an HP Jornada 820 (16MB RAM, 200MHz ARM CPU).
The VM was an old 3.3 one that I found hiding on ftp.squeak.org, and it
amazingly ran.

I had a collection of images that worked. I don't know how fast your machine
is, but you can forget trying to run Morphic on a slow CPU. Also, I needed
to shrink the image to below 16MB.

I achieved this by taking a 3.8 (or 3.7... I forget) image, opening up an
MVC project and then manually removing all of Morphic and other crap in the
class browser. This brings the image below 16MB. Then I spent some time
adding performance tweaks to the MVC environment to make it even faster.

One day I plan to try to update the VM to a more recent version. The
problems are:
* The only compiler for Win CE 2.11 is an old version of Microsoft
Visual/Embedded C++; I forget the name and version. It won't run under WINE.
* Alternatively, I could install Linux on the Jornada, but this will take
hours of mucking around. Maybe during a long car trip at some stage?

http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2436

Gulik.


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