From 945df4e564176aa2d5bb9ec9bf833b684e235de0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Sokolovsky Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 20:44:27 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] README: Update "unix" section with more info/details. --- README.md | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index f380bafdad..17e369a3f7 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -49,19 +49,24 @@ The Unix version The "unix" port requires a standard Unix environment with gcc and GNU make. x86 and x64 architectures are supported (i.e. x86 32- and 64-bit), as well -as ARMv7. Porting to other architectures require writing some assembly code -for the exception handling. +as ARM and MIPS. Making full-featured port to another architecture requires +writing some assembly code for the exception handling and garbage collection. +Alternatively, fallback implementation based on setjmp/longjmp can be used. To build: $ cd unix $ make -Then to test it: +Then to give it a try: $ ./micropython >>> list(5 * x + y for x in range(10) for y in [4, 2, 1]) +Run complete testsuite: + + $ make test + Debian/Ubuntu/Mint derivative Linux distros will require build-essentials and libreadline-dev packages installed. To build FFI (Foreign Function Interface) module, libffi-dev and pkg-config packages are required. If you have problems