On Thursday, 8 May 2014 at 16:16:22 UTC, Joakim wrote:
Well, Android/x86 for now. I've been plugging away at getting
D running on Android/x86 and got all of the druntime modules'
unit tests and 37 of 50 phobos modules' unit tests to pass. I
had to hack dmd into producing something like packed TLS for
ELF, my patch is online here:
http://164.138.25.188/dmd/packed_tls_for_elf.patch
I simply turned off all TLS flags for ELF and spliced in the
el_picvar patch from OS X to call ___tls_get_addr. Somebody
who knows dmd better than me should verify to make sure this is
right.
I've also put online preliminary pulls for druntime and phobos:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/pull/784
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/2150
Now that a significant chunk of D is working on Android/x86,
I'm looking for others to pitch in. We really need to get D on
mobile, and Android/x86 is an ideal place to start. Dan Olson
has done some nice work getting D on iOS using ldc, I'm sure he
could use help too:
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/m2txc2kqxv....@comcast.net
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/m2d2h15ao3....@comcast.net
Stuff remaining to be done:
1. Fix all phobos unit tests. Those who know the failing
modules better would be best equipped to get them to work.
2. I tried creating an Android app, ie an apk, which is really
just a shared library called from the Dalvik JVM, as opposed to
the standalone executables I've been running from the Android
command line so far. The apk enters the D code and then
segfaults in the new TLS support, I'll debug that next.
3. Use ldc/gdc to build for Android/ARM.
4. Start translating various headers on Android so they can be
called from D, ie EGL, OpenGL ES, sensors, etc.
5. Integrate the D compilers into the existing Makefile-based
build system of the Android NDK. Right now, I extract the
necessary compiler and linker commands and run them by hand
when necessary.
All you need to get going is to download the latest Android NDK
(http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/ndk/index.html) and run
Android/x86 (http://www.android-x86.org/, I recommend the 4.3
build) in a VM. I'll put up some basic setup and build
instructions if someone is interested.
interesting.
