Greetings, Sorry for cross posting, if this a group that becomes irate with cross posters. :-) However, it seems I posted this question incorrectly to the android group. Apologies there.
I guess I'll just copy paste it here. If anyone has any tidbits of information that could save me countless hours, would be much appreciated. ------------- So I've spent quite some time searching for work porting dalvik to win32. (not cygwin/ming) And I can hardly find anything. Perhaps I've been picking the wrong keywords to search for... dalvik, win32, port, msvc, etc etc.. Anyhow. Does anyone know of such work? And/or where it resides? I don't need any of android except dalvik. (I did see the post of the utils to get dalvik without the rest of android btw). And actually, although this may sound strange, I don't need a multi threaded dalvik either.. (although does the GC run on a different thread like sun? not sure) I've spent the last few hours compiling dalvik file by file within msvc. Besides the obvious pthread issues, and a unix only calls, and some casting issues, and some places where gcc allows a bit more interesting use of the stack in variable array declarations than vc++, and a few scoping issues with GcHeap enums so far, and necessary remapping of sys/* includes, and some work with file mapping, and some etc, etc. I haven't hit what looks like a super brick wall yet. Also, dalvik's code is really beautiful btw. Congrats! So, additional questions would be 1) If I wanted to avoid the pthread issues altogether, and I wanted to call the GC manually via the containing host executable, could this be possible? 2) If this is not possible, and I must provide pthreads.. Is there any reason not to use a wrapped boost? 3) Are there other questions that I should be asking? (But am not, because I just started this process) Thanks in advance, -tim -- unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting
