I have also installed PDL::Graphics::Gnuplot under debian under android and it works well under vnc (I use tightvncserver as server in debian-android and bVNC as a vnc viewer android app) Luis
On Sat, Aug 09, 2014 at 02:05:25PM -0500, Luis Mochan wrote: > I just installed PDL succesfully from cpan (without manually > installing the many optional prerequisites) under a perlbrew perl 5.18.2 > installation under a Debian/testing system which I installed in an SD > card using Sven-Ola's Debian-Kit app under Android, running in an Asus > TF300T. It seems to work fine. > > > On Sat, Aug 09, 2014 at 07:21:37PM +0200, Brian Fraser wrote: > > Howdy all! > > > > Replying to https://sourceforge.net/p/pdl/bugs/357/ here. > > > > Quick background: As of the latest stable release, Perl now supports > > Android, so I've been going through CPAN and seeing what works. > > PDL hit one of android's, er, surprising behaviors, thus the bug > > report, but beyond that looks like it works :D > > Note however that I'm not really a PDL user, so it may be broken in > > ways that aren't obvious to me. > > > > >Would you be able to document what is needed and > > >how it works? > > > > It depends a bit on how you're working on Android. There's two ways to > > get Perl on android -- you can either cross-compile it, or get a > > native toolchain and build perl on the device itself[0]. > > > > I don't know how/if you can cross-compile perl and then cross-compile > > modules -- that probably still doesn't work. So what I'm doing for > > CPAN is getting a native toolchain and building it all on an actual > > Android device. > > > > With that in place, a 'cpan PDL' was all that was needed. > > > > >Does this work on smartphones? > > > > As far as command line stuff goes, sure. Shipping it as an app still > > requires pretty terrible hacks, though. > > > > >Is Android OS a 64bit platform that could use true 64bit > > >index support in PDL? > > > > Exclusively 32-bit at the moment; possibly starting to go into 64 bit > > in the next year or two. The vast majority of Android devices > > currently run ARM32, while a handful run x86, and theoretically you > > could run it on mipsel as well, but I've never heard of that beyond > > VMs. > > > > I'd be glad to run stuff to check if PDL works properly, or help > > people set up their own perls, by the way! > > > > [0] http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/blob/HEAD:/README.android > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Perldl mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl > > > > -- > > o > W. Luis Mochán, | tel:(52)(777)329-1734 /<(*) > Instituto de Ciencias Físicas, UNAM | fax:(52)(777)317-5388 `>/ /\ > Apdo. Postal 48-3, 62251 | (*)/\/ \ > Cuernavaca, Morelos, México | [email protected] /\_/\__/ > Consider using GnuPrivacyGuard https://www.gnupg.org/ > My key: 791EB9EB, C949 3F81 6D9B 1191 9A16 C2DF 5F0A C52B 791E B9EB, yours? > > > > _______________________________________________ > Perldl mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl > -- o W. Luis Mochán, | tel:(52)(777)329-1734 /<(*) Instituto de Ciencias Físicas, UNAM | fax:(52)(777)317-5388 `>/ /\ Apdo. Postal 48-3, 62251 | (*)/\/ \ Cuernavaca, Morelos, México | [email protected] /\_/\__/ Consider using GnuPrivacyGuard https://www.gnupg.org/ My key: 791EB9EB, C949 3F81 6D9B 1191 9A16 C2DF 5F0A C52B 791E B9EB, yours? _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
