Re: Compiling on Android
Pascal Bourguignon <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.lisp.clisp.devel |
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> On 13 Dec 2017, at 02:37, Bruno Haible <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Jean Louis, > >> I would like to be able to compile CLISP on Android. It would require some >> changes like /bin/sh to be definable and not hard coded. >> >> Anybody compiled it on Android? > > No. not as far as I know. > > It's not only about compiling it. You would also need to rethink the I/O system > (no stdin, stdout), provide bindings to the (huge) set of Android APIs, and > integrate with the toolchain that produces APKs. > > And what would be the point? How would this help making Android more free [1] > (less surveillant, less controlled by Google) within a reasonable time frame? Android applications can also run external processes (contrarily to iOS). So an Android application could fork a clisp process, and communicate with it. The kernel is Linux, so there is definitely stdin and stdout and everything. Then of course, there’s the eventual possibility of compiling clisp as a library to be linked with the Android applications and used thru JNI. You wouldn’t implement the UI in lisp. -- __Pascal J. Bourguignon__ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ clisp-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clisp-devel