Has anyone looked into porting Squeak to Android? I've been going over some of the documentation and the videos and, from the outside, it looks like Google is keeping access to the kernel (etc.) closed. To me, it looks like they have forced developers to use java, and only java, for application development. They've created an Eclipse plugin to make it easy to write/debug/emulate java apps. But, no where did I find the ability to treat the system like any other embedded linux system - e.g. run gcc Is that what others have found? Or, did I miss something?
brad
actually there was a thing going around about that a while ago, I dont think it would be too difficult, now that they have released the entire system as open-source. I would love to help out as much as I can if anyone starts working on it :) David Zmick /dz0004455\ http://dz0004455.googlepages.com http://dz0004455.blogspot.com
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Brad Fuller bradallenfuller@gmail.comwrote:
http://code.google.com/android/
-- Brad Fuller
Seems to me (not that I've looked you should be able to compile up a unix VM?) Otherwise start with http://isqueak.org/PlatformVMAPI and start coding.
On 24-Nov-08, at 6:39 PM, David Zmick wrote:
actually there was a thing going around about that a while ago, I dont think it would be too difficult, now that they have released the entire system as open-source. I would love to help out as much as I can if anyone starts working on it :) David Zmick /dz0004455\ http://dz0004455.googlepages.com http://dz0004455.blogspot.com
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Brad Fuller <bradallenfuller@gmail.com
wrote:
http://code.google.com/android/
-- Brad Fuller
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HI David,
Thanks. I just found this and am looking at it now:
http://source.android.com/download
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 6:39 PM, David Zmick dz0004455@gmail.com wrote:
actually there was a thing going around about that a while ago, I dont think it would be too difficult, now that they have released the entire system as open-source. I would love to help out as much as I can if anyone starts working on it :) David Zmick /dz0004455\ http://dz0004455.googlepages.com http://dz0004455.blogspot.com
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Brad Fuller bradallenfuller@gmail.com wrote:
http://code.google.com/android/
-- Brad Fuller
I'm still going thru the videos and docs on Android. One thing that is an obvious potential issue is that glibc is not included. They created their own c library called libc and it is not compatible with glibc. That might put a damper on, or at least a slowdown, on the Squeak VM port to Android. I don't know if they have a tool that would illustrate the differences so that we could quickly find and fix functions.
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