Le 09/05/2014 15:22, Chris a écrit :
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/[email protected]
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/[email protected]
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.
I can't tell you how much I appreciate this! It's wonderful. All the
stuff I'm working on will have to go on smart phones and tablets sooner
or later. People do ask for it, because everything is an "app" these days.
Much as I appreciate all the efforts to improve D as a language (GC,
library etc.), if we can't get into the mobile market, D won't take off.
People think "app". "What do you think?" - "Think? Is there an app for
that?"
+1
