Probably you can run a D command line app on an android ARM device

[Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 14 April 2015 at 04:07:29 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Monday, 13 April 2015 at 17:44:42 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
>> On Monday, 13 April 2015 at 16:33:06 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> So that is why vibed demo app doesn't work although it does 
>> compile.   (The TLS kludge not yet in GDC).  So if I make all 
>> globall gshared, I can do useful work today using Gdc on arm 
>> android, even if I have to use an alternative to vibed for the 
>> network stuff ?
>
> Yes, but that is harder than it sounds, because often those 
> globals are supposed to be thread-local.  Dan Olson has a 
> branch of druntime for iOS where he uses pthreads instead for 
> TLS, for the handful of places where druntime needs it:
>
> https://github.com/smolt/druntime/blob/ios/src/ldc/xyzzy.d#L83
>
> Phobos uses TLS globals much more, so it's prohibitive to do 
> the same there.  That means you could use druntime but not 
> phobos if you wanted to go this route, as I mentioned to Rishub 
> earlier in this thread.
>
>>>> The alternative is to run a full linux install in a chroot:
>>>>
>>>> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.meefik.linuxdeploy
>>>
>>> But that requires root, so you're back to square one.
>>
>> Well, I have root.  But if I get somebody else to start 
>> playing with my app, I don't want to have to make them root 
>> their device just to see what it does.
>
> Yep, one of the many problems with root.
>
> On Monday, 13 April 2015 at 18:30:16 UTC, Johannes Pfau wrote:
>> I didn't read all of this discussion. Does the chroot method 
>> mean you
>> can use glibc?
>
> Yes, I believe so.

You can use glibc with the Android NDK anyway.

Atila