On Thursday, 30 July 2015 at 19:38:12 UTC, Joakim wrote:
On Monday, 25 May 2015 at 20:08:48 UTC, Joakim wrote:
On Monday, 18 May 2015 at 15:47:07 UTC, Joakim wrote:
Sure, have fun with your new devices. :) Hopefully, I'll get
Android/ARM working before then, but I don't and won't have
any AArch64 devices to test. Not that it matters, as 64-bit
ARM has even less share than x86 right now.
Earlier this week, I stumbled across a way to get TLS working
with ldc for Android/ARM, similar to the approach used for
Android/x86 so far. Exception-handling on ARM for ldc is
currently unfinished
(https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/489), so if I
disable a handful of tests related to that, I get 36 of 42
druntime modules' unit tests and around 31 of 70 phobos
modules' unit tests to pass. All tests were run from the
command line on my Android tablet. It appears there are
issues related to unicode and the GC causing many of the
remaining failures.
Some good news, I've made progress on the port to Android/ARM,
using ldc's 2.067 branch. Currently, all 46 modules in
druntime and 85 of 88 modules in phobos pass their tests (I had
to comment out a few tests across four modules) when run on the
command-line. There is a GC issue that causes 2-3 other
modules to hang only when the tests are run as part of an
Android app/apk, ie a D shared library that's invoked by the
Java runtime.
I've compiled an Android/ARM app that will run the remaining
majority of tests on Android 5 Lollipop or newer, which you can
download and try out on your Android 5 devices:
https://github.com/joakim-noah/android/releases/tag/apk
All tests run on my Android 5.1 device, while the last two
modules tested by this app hang on an Android 5.0 device I
tested. All patches used are linked from the above release.
Thanks, I didn't remember you were the one working on this. I've
been following this and I'm just as eager to start testing my
libraries with it.
I think Android could also use a cross-platform web plugin
framework. I've started to refactor the idea, and just being able
to enhance a website with native code on any platform would be
great, it would really make up for being forced into doing
all-javascript when writing the UI in HTML5/CSS right now.
