[pypy-dev] pypy android

Leonardo Santagada santagada at gmail.com
Fri Aug 31 14:46:46 CEST 2012


On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 5:10 AM, David Schneider
<david.schneider at picle.org> wrote:
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> Based on the requirements PyPy could in Theory work on Android, it is Linux based, allows JIT compilation, the commonly used hardware matches what the backend supports. But AFAIK android uses a different libc, called bionic, and probably some other custom libraries making it a bit harder, but probably not impossible to cross translate for Android as we do for ARM/Linux using a chroot/qemu environment.

what you would probably use is the android NDK
http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/ndk/index.html

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Leonardo Santagada


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