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

[rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 01/05/2017 11:31 AM, Joakim wrote:
> 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.

Yay!