On Monday, 13 April 2015 at 16:33:06 UTC, Joakim wrote:
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.
So that is why vibed demo app doesn't work although it does
compile. (The TLS kludge not yet in GDC). So if I make all
globall gshared, I can do useful work today using Gdc on arm
android, even if I have to use an alternative to vibed for the
network stuff ?
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.
Fine with me to use another port... I am not trying to serve the
world, just be able to interact via the browser rather than
command line.
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.
Well, I have root. But if I get somebody else to start playing
with my app, I don't want to have to make them root their device
just to see what it does.
Laeeth.
