[Gambas-user] Gambas for Android

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 22/08/2012 19:05, John Spikowski a écrit :
> On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 10:38 +0200, Girard Henri wrote:
>> Le 22. 08. 12 10:24, Kevin Fishburne a écrit :
>>> On 08/20/2012 05:05 PM, cfb95 wrote:
>>>> Well,
>>>> as Linux distro can run on android,
>>>> Gambas must be work also!
>>>> may be no need to port!
>>>>
>>>> i've run a very simple console program (gambas2)
>>>> on my motorola xoom, and it work! 8-)
>>>>
>>>> The graphic front end of gamas2 not work on my tablet due to a bug
>>>> (in gbx_math.c pow and powl when compiled for ARM).
>>>> this bug is fixed in Gambas3 as it not use long double at all.
>>>>
>>>> For running a linux distro on android someone have found the key: chroot!!!
>>>>
>>>> i've used this info:
>>>> http://trsohmers.com/2011/03/06/how-to-run-ubuntu-on-the-motorola-xoom/
>>>>
>>>> with this method, we have android and linux running at the same time over same
>>>> kernel and sharing devices.
>>> If Gambas 3 and component libraries could run on Android then Gambas
>>> would become the language of choice for Android developers, hands down.
>> As cyanogen (android 4) works fine on hptouchpad then gambas3 could run
>> on hptouchpad too !
>>
>
> I tried to get Gambas 3 running on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ARM as a chroot
> image hosted by Android Linux. The auto* tools need to be built from
> scratch as their not available from repositories. Qt may be a problem
> and the MySQL server install is a mess.
>
> There is progress with a X11 client for Android on Play but I don't
> think it's mature enough to support Gtk or Qt.
>
> I think this is a worthy challenge and when all the planets align,
> Gambas should be a star.
>

I don't understand why I had no problem with compiling Gambas on 
Debian/RaspberryPI and you have problems to compile Gambas on Ubuntu 
which is based on Debian. Or not?

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Benoît Minisini