wow, great news for my phone :) I've read another blogpost about someone trying to achieve the same, had something to do with "between ideals", I'll google it up if you need it. he had a github repo with some "ugly hacks" to make druntime work for android, maybe this can be looked into?
2012/2/5 Alex Rønne Petersen <xtzgzo...@gmail.com> > On 02/05/2012 11:04 PM, Johannes Pfau wrote: > >> Am Sun, 5 Feb 2012 18:04:12 +0100 >> schrieb Johannes Pfau<nos...@example.com>: >> >> I will probably need some more time to get this working... >>> >>> >> I have some good news: >> http://www.mediafire.com/?**107we120sh3xx<http://www.mediafire.com/?107we120sh3xx> >> >> I fixed that problem and then the whole build worked fine. I'll post >> build instructions soon, but the binaries are ready. I only did a >> simple gdc -c test.d to check the compiler, but it seems to work. >> >> Linking against druntime fails, as it uses functions which are not >> available on Android (backtrace, signal stuff). >> >> I also built a simple hello world on linux (printf, no runtime) and ran >> it on my android phone, and it worked! >> >> In case you haven't used GDC without runtime before, a short >> introduction: >> >> * use gdc -nophoboslib to make gdc not link against phobos (and afaik, >> druntime) >> * theres also -nostdlib in case you need it >> * complex code may require -fno-section-anchors because of bug #120 >> * You'll get an error about a missing _Dmodule_ref symbol. That symbol >> is used by module constructors and not generated by gdc if >> -nophoboslib was passed. As long as you don't run the module >> constructors, you can add a fake _Dmodule_ref in a .c file: >> >> ------------ >> void* _Dmodule_ref; >> ------------ >> >> * The compiler defines version(Android) >> >> Here's my hello world: >> ------------ >> version(Android) >> { >> pragma(msg, "Hello Android!"); >> } >> >> extern(C) >> { >> int printf(in char* format, ...); >> } >> >> extern(C) void main() >> { >> printf("Hello, %s!\n".ptr, "Android".ptr); >> } >> ------------ >> >> compile the _Dmodule_ref into hack.o, then use >> gdc -nophoboslib hello.d hack.o >> > > Can we standardize that Android version identifier? Would be good to have > it on dlang.org/version.html. > > -- > - Alex >
