Ehem, ARM

[Paulo Pinto]

On Friday, 15 November 2013 at 08:24:55 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Friday, 15 November 2013 at 07:22:07 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> On Friday, 15 November 2013 at 06:18:00 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Yes, have a look at an initial port of GDC to Android
>>
>> https://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc/wiki/GDC%20on%20Android
>
> Thanks for the link.  It looks like Johannes Pfau took a stab 
> at getting some minimal Android support into gdc a couple years 
> back, with the handful of small patches listed here:
>
> https://bitbucket.org/jpf/gdc/branch/android
>
> Anyone get any farther than that?
>
> Would it make sense to use dmd for linux/x86 to cross-compile 
> to Android/x86 or is this a job for ldc/gdc only?

I would say ldc/gdc only, as LLVM/gcc are the supported NDK 
toolchains and dmd lacks an ARM backend.