D for Android

[FrankLike via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 8 May 2014 at 16:16:22 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> Well, Android/x86 for now.  I've been plugging away at getting 
> D running on Android/x86 and got all of the druntime modules' 
> unit tests and 37 of 50 phobos modules' unit tests to pass. I 
> had to hack dmd into producing something like packed TLS for 
> ELF, my patch is online here:
>
> http://164.138.25.188/dmd/packed_tls_for_elf.patch
>
> I simply turned off all TLS flags for ELF and spliced in the 
> el_picvar patch from OS X to call ___tls_get_addr.  Somebody 
> who knows dmd better than me should verify to make sure this is 
> right.
>
> I've also put online preliminary pulls for druntime and phobos:
>
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/pull/784
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/2150
>
> Now that a significant chunk of D is working on Android/x86, 
> I'm looking for others to pitch in.  We really need to get D on 
> mobile, and Android/x86 is an ideal place to start.  Dan Olson 
> has done some nice work getting D on iOS using ldc, I'm sure he 
> could use help too:
>
> http://forum.dlang.org/thread/m2txc2kqxv.fsf@comcast.net
> http://forum.dlang.org/thread/m2d2h15ao3.fsf@comcast.net
>
> Stuff remaining to be done:
>
> 1. Fix all phobos unit tests.  Those who know the failing 
> modules better would be best equipped to get them to work.
>
> 2. I tried creating an Android app, ie an apk, which is really 
> just a shared library called from the Dalvik JVM, as opposed to 
> the standalone executables I've been running from the Android 
> command line so far.  The apk enters the D code and then 
> segfaults in the new TLS support, I'll debug that next.
>
> 3. Use ldc/gdc to build for Android/ARM.
>
> 4. Start translating various headers on Android so they can be 
> called from D, ie EGL, OpenGL ES, sensors, etc.
>
> 5. Integrate the D compilers into the existing Makefile-based 
> build system of the Android NDK.  Right now, I extract the 
> necessary compiler and linker commands and run them by hand 
> when necessary.
>
> All you need to get going is to download the latest Android NDK 
> (http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/ndk/index.html) and run 
> Android/x86 (http://www.android-x86.org/, I recommend the 4.3 
> build) in a VM.  I'll put up some basic setup and build 
> instructions if someone is interested.

interesting.