Hi,
what is the current status for GNUstep base on Android?
I did some research and found some activity, but mostly older stuff.
Nowadays one year already is quite old. :-)
From an external view point I see the following possible problems:
- as Linux/ARM showed us, exception handling and unwinding on ARM don't
work properly with clang <= 3.4, but that's the clang version used by
the Android NDK; so should we expect similar problems there?
- I couldn't find reliable information about libdispatch on Android, and
AFAIR Android does not have a fully compliant implemenation of pthreads,
so I'm concerned if the pthread-workingqueue lib (a prerequisite of
libdispatch) works on Android
- GNUstep base has some prerequisites like libxml2 etc.; I think they
all need to be compiled for Android also
- I wonder if there is an NSNetServices implementation in GNUstep that
works on Android
I know that there is apportable.com, but they claim not to use GNUstep
anymore, so this does not give any hints about the feasability of using
GNUstep/libobjc2/libdispatch for porting Objective-C code (at least code
that does not use GUI classes) from iOS to Android.
Regards,
Mathias
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