tested the android cross build

[adamdruppe]

I first tried the CI build on android and got a stack corruption error. So that does not work. But you can cross compile from the packaged linux version to android. i have ndk v20

# build the runtime for 32 bit android
./ldc-build-runtime --ldc=./ldc2 --ldcSrcDir=/home/me/program/opend/opend/ldc --buildDir=termux-tmp --targetSystem 'Android;Linux;UNIX' --dflags="-mtriple=armv7a--linux-androideabi" ANDROID_ABI=armeabi-v7a ANDROID_NATIVE_API_LEVEL=20 CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE="/home/me/Android/ndk/android-ndk-r20/build/cmake/android.toolchain.cmake"

# build the test program
./ldc2 -mtriple=armv7a--linux-androideabi test.d --link-defaultlib-shared=false -linker=bfd -mcpu=cortex-a8 -gcc=/home/me/Android/ndk/android-ndk-r20/toolchains/llvm/prebuilt/linux-x86_64/bin/armv7a-linux-androideabi21-clang -L-Ltermux-tmp/lib/

Tested some basic stuff like thread spawn, join, tls var, exception throw and catch. My cgi.d builds with minimal version (no posix_spawn for the advanced features) but the thread embedded server segfaults. Process embedded server and cgi mode works though.

So this is good seems like we have a hope here.

Ideally I'd like the opend program to build the runtime if it doesn't exist, maybe even download an ndk if it isn't there, and do all that cross compile spam stuff automatically so things just work...

[quickfur]

Sounds like a good idea. Manually setting up an android dev env is pretty painful, unless you go for a full install of android studio (but you won't get D support). Easing this pain would go a long way and making openD thrive.