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Tony Garnock-Jones-3

State-of-the-art in Android VMs?

Hello everyone,

Are there any modern VMs that can run on Android (ideally 4.3.1 or so,
which I have on my tablet)?

Googling for it finds much confusion and many defunct projects with
broken download links.

Tony

Eliot Miranda-2

Re: State-of-the-art in Android VMs?

Hi Tony,

On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 9:07 AM, Tony Garnock-Jones <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hello everyone,

Are there any modern VMs that can run on Android (ideally 4.3.1 or so,
which I have on my tablet)?

The Cog ARM VM does run on Android, but only if compiled without "-march=armv6 -mfpu=vfp -mfloat-abi=hard", which are flags that we use to build the Linux ARM VM for Rasperry Pi. So if you'd like a VM, and are willing to build one yourself, check-out http://www.squeakvm.org/svn/squeak/branches/Cog, cd to build.linux32ARM/squeak.cog.spur/, edit the mvm scripts in the build* subdirectories, and issue "makeallclean", and find VMs built in products/cogspurlinuxhtARM

Googling for it finds much confusion and many defunct projects with
broken download links.

Sorry. We're on the verge f transitioning to github and once that's complete we should be able to rationalise and organise all of this and eliminate the cruft.

_,,,^..^,,,_

best, Eliot

Tony Garnock-Jones-3

Re: State-of-the-art in Android VMs?

On 06/13/2016 03:50 PM, Eliot Miranda wrote:
> The Cog ARM VM does run on Android, but only if compiled without
> "-march=armv6 -mfpu=vfp -mfloat-abi=hard", which are flags that we use
> to build the Linux ARM VM for Rasperry Pi. So if you'd like a VM, and
> are willing to build one yourself,
> check-out http://www.squeakvm.org/svn/squeak/branches/Cog, cd
> to build.linux32ARM/squeak.cog.spur/, edit the mvm scripts in the build*
> subdirectories, and issue "makeallclean", and find VMs built in
> products/cogspurlinuxhtARM

Thank you, Eliot! I'm looking forward to giving it a try.

> We're on the verge f transitioning to github

*Excellent*. That's very good news.

Cheers,
Tony