Ehem, ARM

[Joakim]

On Friday, 15 November 2013 at 00:18:50 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> On 11/14/2013 05:14 PM, Kai Nacke wrote:
>> But this is only half of the story. My target is Linux/ARM 
>> which is
>> already supported by druntime/phobos. If you target a 
>> smartphone then
>> you also have to add Android or iOS support to druntime/phobos.
>
> Currently version (linux) in druntime is equivalent to glibc.
> Porting druntime to bionic or newlib might be quite an effort 
> but I have no concrete idea what issues to expect.

As Kai says, has anyone worked on getting D running on Android 
before?  I've been thinking about attempting an Android port for 
years.  I thought I'd spin up some x86 VMs this weekend and take 
a crack at getting D working on Android/x86 
(http://www.android-x86.org/) as a first step.  If anyone has 
started on this already, I could chip in on their branch.

Also, does dmd have any support for cross-compilation or is it 
better to stick to ldc/gdc when cross compiling to Android?

On a related note, it looks like Rust was ported to Android/ARM 
earlier this year:

https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Doc-building-for-android