On Saturday, 27 October 2018 at 06:03:02 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Friday, 26 October 2018 at 16:24:50 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
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>> My main code is in D, but consists of a bunch of functions repeatedly called from the Java wrapper as native functions. Main reason is that for GUI interactions it makes more sense to leverage the Java APIs provided by Android, rather than to go through the pain of marshalling and calling Java functions via JNIEnv. (There are a couple of places where this is necessary, e.g., when D code needs to trigger a GUI action, but I'm trying to keep this to a minimum.)
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> Will this app be publicly disclosed at some point or is it an internal app that you won't be making public? I ask because AFAIK it would be the first real project to use D on Android, so it would be good to publicize it.

Well, this is my first time writing an Android app, and if it ever gets to the point where I feel it's fit for public consumption, then I certainly would publish it.  But for the time being, it's just a pet project.


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>> I do have an empty main() in the .so, though, per your recommendations on that wiki page.  Does that make a difference?
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> It's not a recommendation, the wiki page notes that the emulated TLS scheme used "requires some changes." However, I'm currently reworking the way emulated TLS data is stored to remove all three of those listed requirements: kinke suggested reading the ELF section headers instead, and so far it seems to work with the ld.bfd, gold, and lld linkers, but I'm still optimizing it and haven't tested it with a shared library yet. Hopefully, those changes for emulated TLS on Android listed on the wiki won't be needed with the upcoming 1.13 release.

That's good news. Looking forward to the next LDC release!

Side note: I notice that the latest LDC release is basically on par with the current DMD release.  This is an extremely good thing IMO, since it makes LDC a real and serious offer among the "official" D compilers.  I thought I should publicly state how happy I am with the amazing work the LDC maintainers have done to make this happen. Kudos!

And what with the recent official inclusion of GDC into GCC upstream, D is shaping up to be a powerful force indeed.