Arm support for pyinstaller

[shanemhansen]

These are bootloader executables for arm as well as the platform
detection code needed to utilize them.
Executables were created using:
./waf configure --no-lsb
./waf install
on an Arm system.

[matysek]

Could you please provide more information about python version and HW / SW configuration it has been tested with?

Was it really that simple to just update the platform detection code or do you expect more pull requests related to arm platform?

Do you think it is worth to include binary bootloaders for arm platform?

Is there any simulator I could use to try recompile bootloaders for arm?

[shanemhansen]

Hardware was: http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv5/seagate-goflex-home armv5 (armv5tel)
OS: Linux 3.1.10 (Mostly debian stable packages)
Python version: 2.7.2
gcc: 4.6.2

Prior to this patch on arm systems pyinstaller executes sucessfully, but builds an executable for Linux-32bit (x86). Building the proper bootloaders for arm is actually as simple as running waf configure and waf install, I did have trouble finding a lsbcc package for my system, which is why the executables were built with --no-lsb. waf install puts the arm executables in Linux-32bit, I manually placed them into Linux-32bit-arm, and updated the platform detection code.

I can verify that this setup works with pyinstaller to produce a valid directory-style installation for a relatively complex project (using twistd).

I haven't had much luck with finding an arm simulator that will work. Some posts like this: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/HowToQemu indicate it's possible.

I found this documentation: http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Waf which has some nice tips for arm cross compiling.

[matysek]

Thanks for your testing on arm. Similar change was implemented in c081313 .

I think include binary bootloaders for arm is not suitable. Binary bootloaders make sense only for more widespread platforms.

[htgoebel]

For just compiling the bootloaders, cross-compiling would be a solution. But it's quite some effort setting this up. So I agree we will not supply bootloader.

@shanemhansen: What agout adding your data to the wiiki at www.pyinstaller.org?