Re: how to help with android

2012-08-06 Thread Matthew Caron
On 08/05/2012 11:19 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote: I was thinking on this a bit. What if someone wrote a compiler target that compiled D to JVM bytecode? I know there are other compilers which do similar things. Then your code will be just Dalvik bytecode, with some of it being JITed depending on speci

Re: how to help with android

2012-08-05 Thread Paulo Pinto
On Friday, 3 August 2012 at 12:41:37 UTC, Matthew Caron wrote: On 07/29/2012 10:30 AM, angel wrote: I would not seriously consider coding in D instead of Java. Neither D, Java nor Android are close to that. I was thinking on this a bit. What if someone wrote a compiler target that compiled D

Re: how to help with android

2012-08-03 Thread Matthew Caron
On 07/29/2012 10:30 AM, angel wrote: I would not seriously consider coding in D instead of Java. Neither D, Java nor Android are close to that. I was thinking on this a bit. What if someone wrote a compiler target that compiled D to JVM bytecode? I know there are other compilers which do simi

Re: how to help with android

2012-07-29 Thread angel
As Android is mostly targeted at ARM, you could possibly target your spare time and good intentions to ARM as well. 1) Compile your code statically with whatever compiler you wish (e.g. GCC). Should work as long you don't interfere with Dalvik-controlled UI. Statically compiled C code works fine

Re: how to help with android

2012-07-25 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2012-07-25 19:35, Johannes Pfau wrote: * Android doesn't officially support native executables. I'm not sure where this statement is hidden, but it is an official statement. For example their linker is broken when accessing a global variable from a native application in a specific wa

Re: how to help with android

2012-07-25 Thread Johannes Pfau
Am Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:12:33 +0200 schrieb maarten van damme : > Hello, I would really want to use D on android. I've seen > https://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc/wiki/GDC%20on%20Android and judging > by the TODO's it's not really usable right now. > > Is there a way I can contribute/help any way? I