From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Android port of Emacs Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2023 19:28:14 +0300 Message-ID: <83jzw3s76p.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83v8fnslfz.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="7091"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, luangruo@yahoo.com To: Thomas Fitzsimmons Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 16 18:29:08 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qACJv-0001bt-H7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2023 18:29:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qACJ8-0000IK-UJ; Fri, 16 Jun 2023 12:28:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qACJ7-0000Hz-TI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2023 12:28:17 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qACJ7-0005IB-6C; Fri, 16 Jun 2023 12:28:17 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=0+OjFa4884Pv/kJwoxf+H2hq3ap0D3TkvQU5D5UM674=; b=D/cqFh//Sb/n xcZpbRsGD/R76Bm8L6Rr3frns4N/4ZnGO4cZqaewYn6SsEJd36lLq/BqzZY4YB7KQeKKDqBde+/Rg yje3DRM+Zzb0iiA1/HhKWcpDoIYHiOIHw561rMyZgq95utUQSClSgGWaOY3J1n5duNMu8Kpgk/tPZ CU8q2foKwg4mPSJo5LPWE8b6m3khnBwf2THIS1O27mmmZiwm5wjaTH9dbd6AhXulZwuUe0hoFBrsm v1WPOOPDTpYEz32MeZR71sghJzHsQ5lYCd/9+fUTZ1OksqxSO2wjieyrBwkAMs10mFUkuf7e6J3M7 gKw1gjJ8Wi/1M9/Lpr7xcQ==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qACJ6-0005Ov-MS; Fri, 16 Jun 2023 12:28:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Thomas Fitzsimmons on Fri, 16 Jun 2023 11:49:29 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:306837 Archived-At: > From: Thomas Fitzsimmons > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Po Lu > Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2023 11:49:29 -0400 > > My main worry about the port, from a maintainability standpoint, is how > to cross-compile Emacs for Android using entirely free software. (For > an extra challenge, my workstation is PPC64, so I can't use pre-built > x86-64 binaries.) Po, are there steps I can take using a free toolchain > to generate an APK that I can try on my device? > > I have seen other Android projects that claim to be buildable only with > Gradle which AFAIK is free software, but they are Java-only, but I > haven't tried myself. Can Emacs be built using gradlew? Is the NDK > required to build Emacs for Android? Please start a new thread about these issues. Let's not mix the subject I raised here with practical questions of how to build and use the Android port in this or that system configuration. OK?