1. On Topic: OE on the Pi
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Jan 17, 2015
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I can't believe that I missed this before. Here's a great article on OpenEuphoria on the Raspberry Pi.
http://www.russelldavis.org/2014/06/13/openeuphoria-on-the-raspberry-pi/
2. Re: On Topic: OE on the Pi
- Posted by GreenEuphorian Jan 18, 2015
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I can't believe that I missed this before. Here's a great article on OpenEuphoria on the Raspberry Pi.
http://www.russelldavis.org/2014/06/13/openeuphoria-on-the-raspberry-pi/
I so wish there was some good news on the Android front too. Unfortunately, Android seems to be somewhat neglected by the OE community.
3. Re: On Topic: OE on the Pi
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Jan 18, 2015
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I can't believe that I missed this before. Here's a great article on OpenEuphoria on the Raspberry Pi.
http://www.russelldavis.org/2014/06/13/openeuphoria-on-the-raspberry-pi/
I so wish there was some good news on the Android front too. Unfortunately, Android seems to be somewhat neglected by the OE community.
Can you explain this? I've run OE on Android tablets before, what is missing?
4. Re: On Topic: OE on the Pi
- Posted by ChrisB (moderator) Jan 18, 2015
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Hi
Whoa! What! When, where, how! Is there a wiki howto!
Or have I slept through a forum post!
Chris
5. Re: On Topic: OE on the Pi
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Jan 18, 2015
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Hi
Whoa! What! When, where, how! Is there a wiki howto!
Or have I slept through a forum post!
Chris
Erm, http://openeuphoria.org/forum/126096.wc#126096 ... http://openeuphoria.org/forum/121345.wc#121345 ... http://openeuphoria.org/forum/m/106942.wc
6. Re: On Topic: OE on the Pi
- Posted by GreenEuphorian Jan 19, 2015
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I can't believe that I missed this before. Here's a great article on OpenEuphoria on the Raspberry Pi.
http://www.russelldavis.org/2014/06/13/openeuphoria-on-the-raspberry-pi/
I so wish there was some good news on the Android front too. Unfortunately, Android seems to be somewhat neglected by the OE community.
Can you explain this? I've run OE on Android tablets before, what is missing?
To be honest, Jim, I have not tried OE on Android myself. But the impression that I had formed, based on the contents of the very threads you mentioned, is that there is not much activity on that front. For sure there is not much talk on Android here in this forum. It would be nice to have a tutorial or something similar.
7. Re: On Topic: OE on the Pi
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Jan 19, 2015
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To be honest, Jim, I have not tried OE on Android myself. But the impression that I had formed, based on the contents of the very threads you mentioned, is that there is not much activity on that front. For sure there is not much talk on Android here in this forum.
Well, there was quite a bit in the past. These days most of the activity is focused on getting 4.1 out the door.
It would be nice to have a tutorial or something similar.
Agreed. Fortunately, what was written by Russell Davis for the Pi is also applicable to getting an Android (ARM) build going and running.
8. Re: On Topic: OE on the Pi
- Posted by ChrisB (moderator) Jan 19, 2015
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Hi
Ah yes, Mr Sleepy Lazy here. Optimistically expecting an euphoria.apk file that I'd missed, that I could dump onto my phone, and write eu apps.
Cheers
Chris
9. Re: On Topic: OE on the Pi
- Posted by GreenEuphorian Jan 19, 2015
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Hi
Ah yes, Mr Sleepy Lazy here. Optimistically expecting an euphoria.apk file that I'd missed, that I could dump onto my phone, and write eu apps.
Cheers
Chris
That's precisely what I was looking forward to.
10. Re: On Topic: OE on the Pi
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Feb 17, 2015
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Hi
Ah yes, Mr Sleepy Lazy here. Optimistically expecting an euphoria.apk file that I'd missed, that I could dump onto my phone, and write eu apps.
Cheers
Chris
That's precisely what I was looking forward to.
I've looked into this. To make a true apk, we'd need to change the interpreter from being a self contained executable into a shared library. This shared library would be invoked via JNI, and include a bunch of java libraries to facilitate this interaction.
Making an Euphoria interpreter as a shared library that can be embedded has been a goal for a very long time, but it's far from being accomplished. It looks like this will be a prerequisite to creating an apk for OpenEuphoria.
Edit: Even if we eventually do this, getting from an embeddable shared library to an apk through the Android NDK is no piece of cake: http://blog.beuc.net/posts/ http://flohofwoe.blogspot.com/2014/04/cmake-and-android-ndk.html
However, BusyBox obviously can't work like this. Yet apks for BusyBox installers on the Android platform do exist. I haven't been able to figure out how these work, but we should be able to take a similar approach - a java app, easily turned into an apk, that merely "installs" the existing Euphoria binaries that we have for ARM.
