If there is someone who applies with the right background in build systems, Android and tooling, I am happy to find mentors - both on the Julia and Android side to make this port successful.
The important thing is to get something up on the ideas page. Another platform for an embedded port that has come up in my discussions with people is openwrt. -viral > On 10-Mar-2016, at 5:52 PM, Ismael Venegas Castelló <ismael.vc1...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Of course I understand that, it's not my intention to make assumptions or > tell people otherwise. I just wanted to show to the community that the > interest for Julia on Android is anything but fading away. I've never > participated in an event such as GSOC, but since this semester I return to > School I'm interested in considering this and the possibilities that may > arise. :D I'm going to educate myself about all that a GSOC project entails, > thanks for your help. > > El jueves, 10 de marzo de 2016, 5:22:53 (UTC-6), Lutfullah Tomak escribió: > Hi Ismael, > As I said I cannot do on my own since I've just started a new job. If there > is an interested student I can help him/her though > I am not software engineer. I've just curious about julia on android as you > are. So, it's a little overestimate you do on gitter > sorry about that. I can write a suggestion about it in julia-opt or a related > place and intersted party can carry on there. > > On Thursday, March 10, 2016 at 6:38:37 AM UTC+2, Ismael Venegas Castelló > wrote: > Here is a keep recap of what I've been able to achieve so far: > > * https://gitter.im/termux/termux?at=56e0f41a6fde057c26856001 > > > > > > El miércoles, 9 de marzo de 2016, 10:35:53 (UTC-6), Lutfullah Tomak escribió: > Sure I can write a proposal or suggestion and if there is an interested > student I can help the work. I use my phone a substitute for pc so much and > right now I use a linux chroot app for julia but it is slow compared to > native apps like termux provides. The thing is I've recently started to a new > job so it may not be straight away. > > On Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at 8:32:02 AM UTC+2, Viral Shah wrote: > How about making this a GSOC project? Could you perhaps submit a PR to the > GSOC project page on julialang.org with these ideas, since you seem to have > made the most amount of progress here? > > -viral > > > > > On 09-Mar-2016, at 11:47 AM, Lutfullah Tomak <tomak...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I think the most crictical one that toolchain misses is (lib)gfortran > > support. I managed to build gfortran for cross compile but I think I am > > missing pure hard float libgfortran to compile libopenblas with. For > > android, libopenblas expect hard float libraries. In google provided > > toolchain, hard float libraries in .../armv7-a/hard but I don't have > > .../armv7-a/hard directory in my personal build of toolchain. Nevertheless, > > I can build openblas with lapack support but netlib provided tests does not > > work well. Blas passes tests. > > Also, for some dependecies including llvm, there is an app called termux. > > They have source package build system available at > > https://github.com/termux/termux-packages . It can be helpful to look at. > > They listed julia in their package suggestion page for some time > > https://termux.com/package-suggestions.html . >
