It's alive! D building D building D, all on Android

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 27 February 2017 at 17:08:26 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Thursday, 29 December 2016 at 09:16:58 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> On Sunday, 15 May 2016 at 11:09:01 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 11 May 2016 at 19:07:10 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>>>>     [...]
>>>
>>> I've put up three more builds, including ldc master, which 
>>> uses the latest 2.071 frontend.  Once I get JNI and the 
>>> sample app working, I'll make a proper announcement.
>>
>> I've put up the latest native and cross-compiler ldc 1.1.0 
>> beta builds for Android, fresh from the master branch and 
>> using the 2.071 frontend:
>>
>> https://github.com/joakim-noah/android/releases
>>
>> I believe I've fixed the issue that was causing random crashes 
>> in the sample apps, a regression from porting the NDK's C 
>> wrapper to D, found by Vadim Lopatim.  I've added three sample 
>> apps that demonstrate calling D code from JNI.
>>
>> The sample C++ Teapot app from the NDK has been ported to D 
>> and mostly works, including calling Java methods from D 
>> through JNI, but I need to track down some other touch-related 
>> bugs from the port before committing it.  I'm finishing up 
>> reggae files to make building the sample apps very easy.  I'd 
>> like to write up the process to build and use ldc natively on 
>> your Android mobile device, from the Termux app, on the wiki.
>>
>> Once those three are done, I'll create a new thread to 
>> properly announce this beta; in the meantime, nothing will 
>> change with these new beta builds, so try them out.
>
> Piping hot builds of the upcoming ldc 1.1.1 release available 
> as both a linux/x64 -> Android/ARM cross-compiler and a native 
> Android/ARM compiler, that you can run on your own phone or 
> tablet:
>
> https://github.com/joakim-noah/android/releases
>
> I finally spent some time tracking down that touch bug in the 
> sample Teapot app, think I know where it's coming from now, 
> just need to fix it.

Based on the recent 1.2 release of ldc, new builds for Android 
are up:

https://github.com/joakim-noah/android/releases

Notice how small the patches for ldc are, now that kinke added 
support for cross-compiling reals to lower-precision platforms, 
basically just a few additions to the CMake script to 
cross-compile the standard library left.  Only a single assert 
from the stdlib tests trips, a longtime codegen issue in 
std.random that became visible now, and the entire compiler 
dmd-testsuite passes.

I'll update the wiki, upload my remaining patches, post upstream 
PRs, and finally clean up and put out that sample Teapot app, 
which shows using JNI to call Java functions from your D app, 
this week.