Re: [Python-Dev] Cross compiling Python (for Android)

2014-10-26 Thread Stefan Krah
Frank, Matthew I matthew.i.frank at intel.com writes:   4. Module _decimal is failing to compile.  The problem is that it has    a header called memory.h.  Android's libc has the problem that    /usr/include/stdlib.h includes memory.h.  But the build system    puts -I. on the include path

Re: [Python-Dev] Cross compiling Python (for Android)

2014-10-24 Thread Guido van Rossum
Hi Frank, Nobody has responded to you yet, but don't feel discouraged by that! The core Python development group consists mostly of people who don't develop mobile apps in their day jobs, and they may feel reluctant to maintain changes that they can't personally test. (And I don't expect it would

[Python-Dev] Cross compiling Python (for Android)

2014-10-23 Thread Frank, Matthew I
This email is about my experience getting CPython (3.4.1) to cross-compile and run on x86 Android (4.4.2 with sdk 19 and ndk-r9). I know that Android is not a supported architecture (and I won't regale you with stories about the complete locale and mbstowcs support I had to borrow from FreeBSD to