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Brad Fuller-4

[squeak-dev] Android and Squeak

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

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Brad Fuller-4

[squeak-dev] Re: Android and Squeak

http://code.google.com/android/

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David Zmick

Re: [squeak-dev] Re: Android and Squeak

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
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On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Brad Fuller <[hidden email]> wrote:

http://code.google.com/android/

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johnmci

Re: [squeak-dev] Re: Android and Squeak

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
>
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> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Brad Fuller <[hidden email]
> > wrote:
> http://code.google.com/android/
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Brad Fuller-4

Re: [squeak-dev] Re: Android and Squeak

In reply to this post by David Zmick

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 <[hidden email]> 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 <[hidden email]>
> wrote:
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>> http://code.google.com/android/
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Brad Fuller-4

Re: [squeak-dev] Re: Android and Squeak

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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