On Monday, 9 January 2017 at 08:28:04 UTC, Joakim wrote:
On Monday, 9 January 2017 at 00:40:35 UTC, Ignacious wrote:
On Sunday, 8 January 2017 at 22:19:31 UTC, Joakim wrote:
On Sunday, 8 January 2017 at 21:52:01 UTC, Ignacious wrote:
Not sure what is going on, of course ;) So much BS just to
do something that is suppose to be simple ;)
test.d
void main()
{
}
here is test.o
http://pastebin.com/NRrKgKtb
Any ideas?
Oh, that's easy: install the NDK too, as shown on the wiki.
You need the linker that supports ARM from the NDK. Follow
the instructions from the wiki to compile and link the
binary, simply having ldc do everything won't work.
Ok, after executing
$NDK/toolchains/llvm/prebuilt/linux-x86_64/bin/clang
-Wl,-z,nocopyreloc --sysroot=$NDK/platforms/android-9/arch-arm
-lgcc -gcc-toolchain
$NDK/toolchains/arm-linux-androideabi-4.9/prebuilt/linux-x86_64 -target armv7-none-linux-androideabi -no-canonical-prefixes -fuse-ld=bfd -Wl,--fix-cortex-a8 -Wl,--no-undefined -Wl,-z,noexecstack -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -fPIE -pie -mthumb -Wl,--export-dynamic -lc -lm test.o lib/libphobos2-ldc.a lib/libdruntime-ldc.a -o test
I get a test elf file with no errors(although 2.5MB for a
hello world).
I had to do the chmod 755 test
then
./test
to get any output. Before that no output and no errors so
wasn't sure what as going on.
Looks like everything is working! ;)
Good to hear it finally works. :D
Seems like someone really needs to put some time in to getting
all this stuff organized and situated
Maybe the D language foundation can push some money towards it
to get it started off on the right foot?
I'll try to get some of the opengl examples on your repository
to see if they work soon.
I don't think money is the issue as much as people like you
trying it on your own platform and documenting any problems you
find.
ssshhh! Don't say that! Money always help!!! ;)
Cross-compiler toolchains are never simple, consider yourself
lucky for having gotten off easy. :)
I realize things are difficult but it's people that make it
that way ;) Life would be so much simpler if people would just
properly document stuff exactly(or, rather, do what they are
suppose to do). (Even windows seems to love to forget to put
in descriptions of services, tasks, application descriptions,
etc).
I've tried to write up detailed instructions on the wiki. I'm
still improving those and plan to spin off those two sections I
linked you, on how to just build the samples, into their own
page. You can contribute any steps you had to take with
Bash/Ubuntu on Windows with the prebuilt linux/x64
cross-compiler there, once I put the page up.
Yeah, I found it a bit confusing though. It seems like it is
written up by someone that is working on the core rather than a
newb! ;)
The main problem I have had seems to be that UoW uses ver 14.
Somehow I was able to upgrade by following docs online(wasn't
easy but eventually got there and everything seems to work...
I should have documented ;) but I wasn't sure if the process
would work. Supposedly ver 16 exists by one has to be part of
the dev team or something.
If you know all the steps to upgrade Ubuntu on Windows, you may
want to document them on the wiki page I will put up or link to
a good resource that shows how to do it.
I don't because it was all new to me(I didn't know there was even
such a thing as UoW. I simply searched for the errors I got and
tried different solutions until it worked. Luckily the outcome
worked... which is not always the case.
I think that it would be a boon for D to have some type of well
defined and well planned Android development suite rather than
what seems to be hacked/cobbled together. This would bring not
only more developers to D for android but also to D in general.
I'm gonna try the opengl examples and hopefully the work. The
main problem I see is how to actually write "commercial" apps
using D for android. Can it be done successfully? Nobody knows
because there isn't a history. What are the exact steps, say, to
add ads, or interface with the subsystem? I saw that there is
some way to call some java stuff from D but seems like nothing is
thoroughly tested(most of the work as been just trying to get
things up and running).
I will try to do a better job of documenting my progress now that
I have some faith ;) But right now I'm more of the horse rather
than the guy trying to show him where the water is.
