Am 17.02.2012 08:24, schrieb Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho:
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 5:59 AM, Marc Santhoff<[email protected]> wrote:
I have pretty much no idea of the Android SDK or things, but I
understand that this target involves compiling the code to Java byte
code.
Android can run native code too, it runs Linux shared objects. Lazarus
for Android compiles the project as a Linux shared object which is
exactly what many large and successful Android applications do and it
does not use the FPC compiler support for Java. I doubt that the Java
backend would ever support building all the necessary libraries which
the LCL uses or the LCL itself, for example due to the lack of
pointers. Also if that was the case then no 3rd party libraries would
work at all, like LNet. Basically I doubt that there can be any
significant sharing of code here. Also when I started the Java backend
didn't exist.
Though this doesn't invalidate most of your other reasons, but the JVM
port DOES support pointers (more or less). See here:
http://wiki.freepascal.org/FPC_JVM/Language#Partially_supported_language_features
Regards,
Sven
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