Porting flask ASK to bare metal Linux

Question

I am trying to port the Flask ask to a baremetal running custom linux (based on Openembedded) . The actual documentation says

pip install Flask

But on my bare metal system there is not even pip.

SO I have to cross compile pip for my system (The Python Package Installer)

I want to know is pip the only way to install the flask ask. Can we cross build the flask ask and run it on any platform?

Answer 1

First, you can install pip3 easily, the recipe is python3-pip.

There's already a recipe for Flask itself: https://layers.openembedded.org/layerindex/recipe/45374/. Following that example, writing a new recipe for flask-ask should be fairly trivial.

Answer 2

If you don't want to install flask-ask using PIP, you can always try installing via source.

1. Download the flask-ask folder from git hub. https://github.com/johnwheeler/flask-ask
2. Unzip and CD into the folder contain setup.py
3. Run python setup.py install

You may need administrator privileges for step 3. What you do here thus depends on your operating system. For example in Ubuntu you would say sudo python setup.py install