On Oct 3, 5:18 am, Sean Hodges <seanhodge...@googlemail.com> wrote: > As far as I'm aware, no. There is no native C compiler available for > the stock Android platform. To get that level of access to your > device, you'd need to root the phone and cross-compile a tool-chain > for it.
Rooting the phone is not technically required, though it would make life easier by opening up your options for where to install the executable. I'm not aware of a C compile that has been made to run on an android phone (as opposed to produce executables for one, which is common). I'm sure it is possible, however I would also suggest that it's probably not a good idea - you have a computer with limited ram, the available storage media is not really designed for intensive re-write cycles, and you don't exactly have a great platform on which to do serious file editing. But none of these things mean you couldn't do a little light duty development on the phone if you really, really want to. If you really want to do it, an option to compiling a compiler with the android toolchain would be to see if you could make one built to run on arm-linux work by moving over enough of the arm-linux shared libraries, as this may be simpler than trying to compile against android's non-linux libraries. Look up the people who have been running Debian-arm on (rooted) phones. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
