Hitchikers Guide to Porting Phobos / D Runtime to other architectures

[Etienne]

On 2013-12-03 10:43 AM, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> On 3 December 2013 15:30, Joakim <joakim at airpost.net> wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 3 December 2013 at 15:13:36 UTC, Johannes Pfau wrote:
>>>
>>> Am Tue, 03 Dec 2013 12:26:57 +0100
>>> schrieb "Joakim" <joakim at airpost.net>:
>>>
>>>> Seems like you got pretty far with your Android port: are you planning on
>>>> submitting any of these patches back upstream?
>>>
>>>
>>> At some point, probably yes. However, I want to get the 'easy' stuff
>>> working first. This means a stable and well-tested ARM/Linux/glibc
>>> build should be available first. (It makes more sense this way as we
>>> still have/had some ARM codegen bugs in the compiler.)
>>
>>
>> OK, anything against putting your incomplete Android port online someplace,
>> say on github?  I'm working on an Android/x86 port now, that way we could
>> work together and submit our patches together.  This would especially allay
>> Iain's concerns about future conflicts between Android/x86 and Android/ARM
>> patches.  My work is publicly available here:
>>
>> https://github.com/joakim-noah/druntime/tree/android
>
> They are also the concerns of Walter, David and Kai.  But yes I'm a
> bit more vocal about it than some. :~)
>

I'm very interested in this, more specifically when ARM support is such 
that porting the vibe.d library to Android/ARM or Linux/ARM in general 
would allow lightweight micro serial-port servers like the BeagleBone to 
be operated on with WebSockets. This would definitely make robotics more 
simple. I know it would be interesting for me, I'd use it to build a 
simple, mini RC airplane equipped with a GoPro! camera that works over 
LTE. Oh the fun I'd have :) Keep it up