On the negative side, gobject-introspection cross compilation still sounds like a mess
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=592311 On 17 April 2013 01:11, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarv...@gmail.com> wrote: > The situation is probably improved since you tried. Collabora has been > working on it a lot and parts of their work seems to be landing upstream. > For example glib landed very recently > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=689223 > > I agree that it would be worth revisiting. > > > On 16 April 2013 18:58, C. Scott Ananian <csc...@laptop.org> wrote: > >> At the time, the android NDK was rather eccentric, which made >> cross-compilation needlessly difficult. And the GTK stack is very >> deep, there are a lot of dependencies. My understanding is that the >> NDK has been improved since then, and is a little more compatible. I >> wouldn't say speed is the main problem, I'd say maintaining the >> port/fork is, since the changes required to the GTK stack were >> extensive. It would be worth revisiting this to see if the situation >> has improved. >> --scott >> >> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Chris Ball <c...@laptop.org> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > On Sat, Apr 13 2013, Daniel Narvaez wrote: >> >> I was curious about what it would take to port enough of the GNOME >> >> libraries to android to be able to run the current Sugar >> >> implementation there. I'm not planning to work on it, but I thought it >> >> would be useful to post some notes on what I found. >> > >> > cscott did some work on this a few years ago, and published source >> > code -- see in particular: >> > >> > http://cananian.livejournal.com/62756.html >> > http://cananian.livejournal.com/63595.html >> > >> > It was very slow on the hardware we had available at the time. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > >> > - Chris. >> > -- >> > Chris Ball <c...@laptop.org> <http://printf.net/> >> > One Laptop Per Child >> >> >> >> -- >> ( http://cscott.net ) >> > > > > -- > Daniel Narvaez > -- Daniel Narvaez
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