Currently, and probably permanently, android only supports Java. There is a project for perl on android, but nothing is there yet.
David Nicol <[email protected]> wrote: >there was "JPL" Java-Perl Lingo which was a way to embed Perl in Java, >I don't know if it has been maintained. > >After looking at http://source.android.com/release-features it seems >likely that Perl might just build right using the Bionic libc, if you >can get out of the Dalvik VM. Or maybe you can jump straight to perl >6 by implementing parrot for the >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalvik_virtual_machine > >http://source.android.com/projects does not list "perl" but that might >be because (1) it already works or (2) it's within something else such >as "toolchain" instead of, nobody is working on it. > > >What happens if you get the development kit and attempt to compile Perl? > > >On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Ivan Greene <[email protected]> wrote: >> Has anyone here come across a nice Perl evaluator written in Java? I'm >> thinking about putting one on the android OS, because I got a G1 in December >> (early christmas present from my parents :), and Perl on it would be cool. I >> found one, but it was weird, you had to have beginning/ending code tags like >> in PHP, and some other stuff. > > > > >-- >"I think I am a different person when I speak French." -- Jill Kaufman >
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