On Sunday, 12 April 2015 at 19:03:33 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
BTW - since we have linux on ARM, the following may be useful
if you wish to run a D application on your Android mobile
device. No ADB or root required.
http://kevinboone.net/android_nonroot.html
I stumbled across that site sometime back when looking for a way
to open a shell with my own command-line apps on my Android
tablet and run the druntime/phobos unit tests from the command
line on an unrooted Android/ARM device. However, that setup is
not going to fix the TLS issue that's holding up Android/ARM. D
sticks all non-shared/__gshared globals in Thread-Local Storage
(TLS) by default, but Android doesn't support TLS natively, so
you can't just compile a D app for linux/ARM and run it on
Android/ARM, whether with that setup or not.
I guess you might be able to run a local web server to have a
friendlier interface, although I have not yet tried. Since ssh
and rsync works, I don't see why a web server wouldn't.
It'll likely work; you just can't run on port 80 because you
don't have root.
The alternative is to run a full linux install in a chroot:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.meefik.linuxdeploy
But that requires root, so you're back to square one.
