[Tutorial][Binaries] gdc for android

[Manu]

On 5 February 2012 01:17, Johannes Pfau <nospam at example.com> wrote:

> 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 ;-)
>

Me too, but good luck!
Here's hoping... :P
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