Ehem, ARM

[Elvis Zhou]

On Friday, 15 November 2013 at 06:18:00 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Friday, 15 November 2013 at 00:18:50 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
>> On 11/14/2013 05:14 PM, Kai Nacke wrote:
>>> But this is only half of the story. My target is Linux/ARM 
>>> which is
>>> already supported by druntime/phobos. If you target a 
>>> smartphone then
>>> you also have to add Android or iOS support to 
>>> druntime/phobos.
>>
>> Currently version (linux) in druntime is equivalent to glibc.
>> Porting druntime to bionic or newlib might be quite an effort 
>> but I have no concrete idea what issues to expect.
>
> As Kai says, has anyone worked on getting D running on Android 
> before?  I've been thinking about attempting an Android port 
> for years.  I thought I'd spin up some x86 VMs this weekend and 
> take a crack at getting D working on Android/x86 
> (http://www.android-x86.org/) as a first step.  If anyone has 
> started on this already, I could chip in on their branch.
>
> Also, does dmd have any support for cross-compilation or is it 
> better to stick to ldc/gdc when cross compiling to Android?
>
> On a related note, it looks like Rust was ported to Android/ARM 
> earlier this year:
>
> https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Doc-building-for-android

A month ago I tried to cross compile a Hello World for Android 
with ldc on Debian7 x64 with android_ndk_r9 but failed with lots 
of link errors. One of those issues reveal that qsort is absent 
from Android stdlib, I get over it by grabbing a qsort.c and it 
works. Other issues are beyond my knowledge and I'm too busy to 
continue, hope I can take some time to hack on this late this 
month.