[Tutorial][Binaries] gdc for android

[Iain Buclaw]

On 4 February 2012 21:59, Manu <turkeyman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4 February 2012 21:31, Johannes Pfau <nospam at example.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> I tried to rebuild the android ndk with gdc and documented the build
>> process at https://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc/wiki/GDC%20on%20Android
>>
>> The tutorial explains how to build a gdc cross compiler for android. It
>> uses GCC 4.6.2, a recent binutils snapshot and additionally provides a
>> recent gdb 7.4.
>>
>> 32bit linux binaries are also available here:
>> http://www.mediafire.com/?2cex2faqx327l
>> Download the android ndk r7 and extract the gdc 7z file in
>> android-ndk-r7/toolchains/
>>
>> What's working:
>> I couldn't test the compiler yet and I hope someone else will provide
>> feedback, but the basic gdc compiler should work. druntime may or may
>> not work, but it's distributed so that can be tested.
>> Phobos is not being built yet.
>>
>> Known bugs/TODO:
>>
>> You need to build all D code with -fno-section-anchors, see
>> https://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc/issue/120/fsection-anchors-broken-on-arm
>>
>> build-druntime.patch needs to be integrated with gdc. See
>> https://gist.github.com/1739039
>> There are basically 3 things this patch does:
>> * Currently gdc checks for __libc_stack_end as that's used by
>>  druntime. This function is only available in glibc, but bionic
>>  provides a similar function: __get_stack_base. The patch currently
>>  simply replaces __libc_stack_end. We need some way to detect if we
>>  build for bionic, so we can properly version this code. It should
>>  also be tested to verify it is working correctly
>> * Building gcc/config/unix.d fails, so the patch simply skips that
>>  file. This should be investigated further and fixed correctly.
>> * Disables phobos for now, although I think I just disabled building the
>>  final library and the object files are still being built.
>>
>> gdbserver is not being built for some reason. Had no time to
>> investigate that yet.
>
>
> Amazing!
> Do you know how/could you produce binaries for the mingw host? The android
> toolchain for windows can only be built from linux according to the
> toolchain docs last time I tried to build it.

Virtualbox. :þ

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Iain Buclaw

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