[Python-Dev] support of the android platform (original) (raw)

Xavier de Gaye xdegaye at gmail.com
Mon Apr 25 04:11:38 EDT 2016

On 04/24/2016 11:50 AM, Stefan Krah wrote:

Xavier de Gaye <xdegaye gmail.com> writes:

Starting with API level 21 (Android 5.0), the build of python3 with the official android toolchains (that is, without resorting to external libraries for wide character support) runs correctly. With the set of patches described in the patches/Makefile file at [1], the cpython test suite runs[2] on the android x86 and armv7 emulators with only few errors[3]. Those errors are listed with their corresponding error messages, this may give a raw idea of the effort needed to support this platform.

Xavier

[1] https://bitbucket.org/xdegaye/pyona/src [2] To reproduce these results, follow the instructions found in INSTALL at https://bitbucket.org/xdegaye/pyona/wiki/install [3] https://bitbucket.org/xdegaye/pyona/wiki/testsuite

This looks great, very clean! As I understand the patches, the locale.h and langinfo.h problems are solved. Do you think the following issues on the Python bug tracker could be closed?

http://bugs.python.org/issue20305 http://bugs.python.org/issue22747 http://bugs.python.org/issue17905

Thanks. A fix is still needed because Android does not HAVE_LANGINFO_H. I have tried to answer your question directly in those issues.

Xavier

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