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Re: lina32 and android

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Julian Fondren wrote:
> It's a tragedy that there's no QuartusForth for this generation.
> gforth is fun, but lacks a reasonable build system or any intent
> towards having an Android-hosted build system.

I'm using cross compilation with the NDK build system.  As Gforth comes as 
real Android app, not as command line program for a terminal app, this is 
the only way.  Yes, it's complicated, especially since Gforth needs several 
other third-party libraries to work, like SOIL to load the PNG for the 
terminal font, or Gerald's patched-for-Forth swig to generate the C library 
bindings.

When I started, I first compiled Gforth as command line program, that was 
much easier, and instant success.  I've also compiled Gforth as command line 
program for iOS, also instant success (however requires rooting iOS, and 
only runs as process when you ssh to the device).

IMHO you can't have both: usefulness and easy to build.

-- 
Bernd Paysan
"If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself"
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lina32 and android Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2015-12-08 19:36 +0000
  Re: lina32 and android Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2015-12-09 01:27 -0800
    Re: lina32 and android Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2015-12-09 11:24 +0000
      Re: lina32 and android Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2015-12-09 13:27 +0200
  Re: lina32 and android Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2015-12-09 05:39 -0800
    Re: lina32 and android Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2015-12-09 15:00 +0000
    Re: lina32 and android Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-12-09 18:06 +0100
      Re: lina32 and android Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2015-12-09 10:12 -0800
      Re: lina32 and android Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-12-09 23:06 +0100
        Re: lina32 and android Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2015-12-10 07:01 +0100
          Re: lina32 and android Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2015-12-10 09:32 +0100
            Re: lina32 and android anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-12-10 13:34 +0000
            Gforth automated build Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2015-12-11 08:54 +0100
              Re: Gforth automated build Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-12-11 21:52 +0100

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