Android build can't link _d_array

[Iain Buclaw]

On 19 September 2012 18:57, Johannes Pfau <nospam at example.com> wrote:
> Am Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:12:51 +0200
> schrieb "Kris Dawson" <gnerdthe1 at gmail.com>:
>
>> I expermented with building D for Android within a Debian chroot.
>> I was able to get D to build with GCC 4.7.1 under ARM. I went to
>> compile a test program with D   using the _Dmodule_ref shim and
>> nophoboslib flag, however in testing argv[0] to printf output,
>> the linker said it couldn't reference the _d_array_1 function or
>> something similar. I deleted the compiler out of frustation (I
>> spent a week getting it to build on arm). Did I have to manually
>> link gdruntime.a in afterthought?
>
> IIRC the installation instructions and public repositories do not have a
> working libdruntime yet. So you probably only have the compiler, but
> not the runtime (that's also why the _Dmodule_ref hack is necessary).
>
> Seems like accessing an array needs the _d_array_1 function, so that
> doesn't work. You currently can do almost nothing without a runtime. I
> hope that might change in the future or we would see tiny replacement
> runtimes, but for now you need druntime for almost everything.
>
> I gave up on Android for now (without TLS in Android and proper .so
> support in D there's not much we can do), but I had druntime working.
>
> I need to get all that old stuff cleaned up and post it somewhere so
> it doesn't get lost,  but don't hold your breath as I don't have much
> time for that right now.
>
> BTW: If you only want to use D on ARM, try the Raspberry PI or the
> PandaBoard, BeagleBoard, TrimSlice, etc. The problems described above
> are Android problems, not ARM problems. There's one big problem with
> all ARM devices (issue #120), but I have a fix which should be almost
> ready. I just have to run the testsuite on a few architectures to make
> sure there are no regressions.

On top of that, I've finally got my Sheevaplug back - will build a
Linux x86 -> Linux ARM compiler for Ubuntu 12.10 - can stick the files
up on my server (infact, if anyone has any binaries / source build
folders that may be of use, send them my way).


Regards

-- 
Iain Buclaw

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