Google Android

[Tomas Lindquist Olsen]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Georg Wrede <georg.wrede at iki.fi> wrote:
> Tomas Lindquist Olsen wrote:
>>
>> 2009/4/29 Robert Fraser <fraserofthenight at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> Weed wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible to implement support for Google Android on the D?
>>>
>>> Perhaps, but it'd be easier to implement support for D on the Google
>>> Android
>>> :-).
>>>
>>> LDC might be able to generate .class files, which can be run through the
>>> Android thingy to get them into a format gor which Google doesn't have to
>>> pay Sun. The trick would be integrating D and Java's GCs. You can
>>> probably
>>> already get a *very* simple program which doesn't use the D runtime
>>> working
>>> by using LDC to generate a .bc, using the LLVM JVM backend to write out a
>>> .class file and run it through the google thing. Not sure if anyone's
>>> tried
>>> it, though.
>>>
>>
>> According to wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Android )
>> it should be possible to run native ARM code, even though it's not
>> officially supported by google.
>>
>> It's probably possible to get a full D implementation, but someone
>> would just have to fix Tango on ARM ;)
>
> I'd just hate to create statically linked programs on a small machine. Feels
> like a massive waste of space.
>
> Typically I'd think the apps would be less than a thousand lines of code,
> and already having several tens of such binaries could either take a small
> or a huge amount of memory.
>

LDC has supported shared libs (including a shared runtime) for quite a
while, of course I'm not sure about the state of PIC codegen in LLVM's
ARM backend, but I'd guess it's working.