I just installed PDL succesfully from cpan (without manually installing the many optional prerequisites) under a perlbrew perl 5.18.2 installation under a Debian/testing system which I installed in an SD card using Sven-Ola's Debian-Kit app under Android, running in an Asus TF300T. It seems to work fine.
On Sat, Aug 09, 2014 at 07:21:37PM +0200, Brian Fraser wrote: > Howdy all! > > Replying to https://sourceforge.net/p/pdl/bugs/357/ here. > > Quick background: As of the latest stable release, Perl now supports > Android, so I've been going through CPAN and seeing what works. > PDL hit one of android's, er, surprising behaviors, thus the bug > report, but beyond that looks like it works :D > Note however that I'm not really a PDL user, so it may be broken in > ways that aren't obvious to me. > > >Would you be able to document what is needed and > >how it works? > > It depends a bit on how you're working on Android. There's two ways to > get Perl on android -- you can either cross-compile it, or get a > native toolchain and build perl on the device itself[0]. > > I don't know how/if you can cross-compile perl and then cross-compile > modules -- that probably still doesn't work. So what I'm doing for > CPAN is getting a native toolchain and building it all on an actual > Android device. > > With that in place, a 'cpan PDL' was all that was needed. > > >Does this work on smartphones? > > As far as command line stuff goes, sure. Shipping it as an app still > requires pretty terrible hacks, though. > > >Is Android OS a 64bit platform that could use true 64bit > >index support in PDL? > > Exclusively 32-bit at the moment; possibly starting to go into 64 bit > in the next year or two. The vast majority of Android devices > currently run ARM32, while a handful run x86, and theoretically you > could run it on mipsel as well, but I've never heard of that beyond > VMs. > > I'd be glad to run stuff to check if PDL works properly, or help > people set up their own perls, by the way! > > [0] http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/blob/HEAD:/README.android > > _______________________________________________ > Perldl mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl > -- o W. Luis Mochán, | tel:(52)(777)329-1734 /<(*) Instituto de Ciencias Físicas, UNAM | fax:(52)(777)317-5388 `>/ /\ Apdo. Postal 48-3, 62251 | (*)/\/ \ Cuernavaca, Morelos, México | [email protected] /\_/\__/ Consider using GnuPrivacyGuard https://www.gnupg.org/ My key: 791EB9EB, C949 3F81 6D9B 1191 9A16 C2DF 5F0A C52B 791E B9EB, yours? _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
