[ELDK] Questions wrt embedded web server

[Frank Mayer]

Dear Johan,

All Perl packages should have a microperl built option in form 
of a dedicated makefile, for example Makefile.micro. I've just 
successfully built microperl for a Power PC architecture using ELDK 4.2. 
It's the absolute bare minimum built for Perl with no outside dependencies
other than ANSI C and the make utility itself. The statically linked excecutable 
was about 1.2 MB. Still I wouldn't recommend making extensive usage of perl on 
an embedded platform for various reasons, especially the performance overhead 
that comes with an interpreted language.
Don't waste your time trying to cross-compile the complete perl package, it makes 
extensive use of Configure scripts that perform a great deal of tests on the installation 
machine (on which you're typically not running when doing the built with a host-target setup !! )
before generating the appropriate files for the package's built.

Hope this helps,
Frank


-----Original Message-----
From: eldk-bounces at lists.denx.de on behalf of Sergey Nikulov
Sent: Sun 24.05.2009 03:37
To: Johan Borkhuis
Cc: eldk at lists.denx.de
Subject: Re: [ELDK] Questions wrt embedded web server
 
I think perl/php too "heavy" for embedded space.
Please check lighttpd (cgi) or maybe ASP support in goAhead webs

Regards,
Sergey

2009/5/23 Johan Borkhuis <johan at borkhuis.com>:
> Hello,
>
> I am looking into running a webserver (thttpd) on a embedded target. At
> this moment I am using a subset of the ELDK, but I am looking into using
> php or perl to run scripts on the server side. Does anyone have
> experience with this, especially with respect to disk space, memory
> space and load on your system?
>
> Thanks.
>    Johan Borkhuis
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Sergey Nikulov
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