On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce <[email protected]> wrote: > > After a sleepless night of trying to build the latest ldc master branch > 2.070.2 on my Android tablet a couple nights ago, almost the full > druntime/phobos standard library test suite passes (only one assert in > std.conv) and the same for the dmd test suite, with a handful of failures > across three modules exclusively testing C/C++ ABI compatibility. > > The 2.070 frontend is written in D, ie ddmd, and also natively compiled on > the Android tablet by ldc 2.068 (alpha build available here, first download > link - https://github.com/joakim-noah/android/releases/tag/polish), hence D > (2.068) building D (2.070) building D (tests, apps, etc.). :) Of course ldc > 2.068 was itself built natively on Android, using the Termux Android app and > the dev tools that it comes with > (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.termux&hl=en). Using ldc > and Termux, it's possible to build an Android app from scratch _on_ your > Android device, by following these instructions: > > https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/issues/63#issuecomment-184115581 > > It only took a single night of tweaking to build this because of all the > great work many contributors have put in over the past year. First, there's > all the work that Walter, Daniel, and others have put into C++ integration, > as ldc is now a moderately large mixed D/C++ codebase (Dscanner counts 62.5k > klocs of D in the ddmd frontend, plus ldc's C++ layer and how many ever > umpteen lines are invoked in llvm's C++ codebase). > > Dan got the full ldc testsuite working on the Raspberry Pi a couple weeks ago > (https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/1283), in the process fixing > several ARM codegen issues that were hitting Android/ARM also. Finally, > there's all the great work put into ldc recently by Johan, kinke, Dan, > Rainer, and of course David and Kai, to integrate the new D frontend with > llvm and get ldc working on new platforms. > > I'll look at getting JNI working next, along with finishing up a translated > C++/OpenGL ES 2.0 sample app > (https://github.com/googlesamples/android-ndk/tree/master/Teapot). A > linux->Android cross-compiler will need the in-progress work to cross-compile > reals, have to look into that. Once those issues are rounded up, I'll > release a ldc 1.0.0 beta for Android sometime this month.
Congratulations, to you and all those involved! Thanks so much for your time. This is really important work. Cheers, R
