Do you know if this approach would work for on a Kindle Keyboard as well? It would be an interesting way to add functionaltiy to my kindle.
regs Konrad On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Joe Bogner <joebog...@gmail.com> wrote: > Doug - Neat! I took a different approach and got picolisp working on my > android phone and kindle fire by using terminal-ide > (http://code.google.com/p/terminal-ide/ ) as the shell and cross compiling > picoLisp with gcc-arm-linux-gnueabi on my linux box. I can post the binary > if anyone is interested. > > I didn't do anything with it because terminal-ide (and it's busybox compile) > couldn't resolve DNS (didn't include a /etc/resolv.conf) and I lost root at > the time with my kindle fire. > http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22103721 . I was originally > going to play around with scripting out something that involved the network. > > I kicked around shelling out to a java app to resolve DNS but then moved > onto another project. Other than that it worked great. It was nice to have > VIM around as well. I may go back to it at some point but didn't really have > a practical use for it on android especially since I could just ssh into my > linux if I wanted to tinker with picoLisp. > > Thanks for sharing > > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Doug Snead <semaphore_2...@yahoo.com> > wrote: >> >> More android + picolisp fun, this time with the full picolisp. Using the >> android SDK and NDK, I hacked a picolisp/src/makefile to work for android's >> arm processor like this: >> >> ----------- makefile ----------- >> [snip] >> >> CFLAGS := -c -O2 -pipe \ >> -falign-functions=64 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing \ >> -W -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wunused -Wformat \ >> -Wuninitialized -Wstrict-prototypes \ >> -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 >> # ?? had: -m32 >> >> NDK_ROOT = ~/android/android-ndk-r7 >> NDK_BIN = >> $(NDK_ROOT)/toolchains/arm-linux-androideabi-4.4.3/prebuilt/linux-x86/bin >> SYS_ROOT = $(NDK_ROOT)/platforms/android-8/arch-arm/ >> CC = $(NDK_BIN)/arm-linux-androideabi-gcc --sysroot=$(SYS_ROOT) >> LD = $(NDK_BIN)/arm-linux-androideabi-ld >> AR = $(NDK_BIN)/arm-linux-androideabi-ar >> RANLIB = $(NDK_BIN)/arm-linux-androideabi-ranlib >> STRIP = $(NDK_BIN)/arm-linux-androideabi-strip >> >> OS = Arm >> PICOLISP-FLAGS = -m32 -rdynamic >> LIB-FLAGS = -lc -lm -ldl >> DYNAMIC-LIB-FLAGS = -m32 -shared -export-dynamic >> >> [snip] >> --------------------- >> >> Then (to my surprise) picolisp and dynamic libraries were made, >> >> # file ../bin/picolisp ../lib/ext ../lib/ht ../lib/z3d >> ./bin/picolisp: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, version 1 (SYSV), >> dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped >> ./lib/ext: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, ARM, version 1 (SYSV), >> stripped >> ./lib/ht: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, ARM, version 1 (SYSV), >> stripped >> >> ./lib/z3d: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, ARM, version 1 (SYSV), >> stripped >> >> So far so good... >> >> Using this android approach generally, >> >> >> http://gimite.net/en/index.php?Run%20native%20executable%20in%20Android%20App >> >> I placed the picolisp executable in the assets dir and at run-time, copy >> it from assets to /data/data/ in the right place for that app. >> >> Since I'm using the emulator and I know where the executable was placed, I >> can run it using adb, for some command-line tests: >> >> # adb shell /data/data/com.mytest/picolisp '-de foo ("X") (println "X")' >> '-foo 123' -bye >> 123 >> >> # adb shell /data/data/com.mytest/picolisp '-de foo ("X") (println (* "X" >> 2))' '-foo 123' -bye >> 246 >> >> # adb shell /data/data/com.mytest/picolisp '-de foo ("X") (println (* "X" >> 2))' '-foo 12345' -bye >> 24690 >> >> A bit cumbersome having to unpack the executable and other files from the >> app's .apk (zip archive) to run it ... but it can be done. And no fiddling >> with bits ... no changes to the (full picolisp) source at all. >> >> Next step is to try to similarly unpack all the libraries and see if a >> picolisp database server application can be run. Then more testing. And use >> that with android's browser, all within an android app. >> >> But I'm very confident that the full picolisp will run on the android from >> what I see so far! >> >> There are ways to call java from C also, so that opens up possibilities of >> using android java libraries from android picolisp too. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Doug >> >> -- >> UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subjectUnsubscribe > > -- read my mind at: http://the-willows.blogspot.com/ -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
