[Tutorial][Binaries] gdc for android

[Johannes Pfau]

Am Sat, 4 Feb 2012 22:17:54 +0000
schrieb Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw at ubuntu.com>:

> 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
> 

According to the docs I just have to pass --mingw to the build script
and use the windows ndk as a base. I'll try this tomorrow, but I'd be
surprised if it really was that easy ;-)