Andrew Haley wrote:
On 02/15/2013 01:13 PM, Jerome Huck wrote:
There seems to be some versions of GCC for ANDROID C/C++/Pascal working
or even Fortran, see the attached links. Can we hope one day to have
some official release?
I can't see why not, but it'll require someone to contribute the code
and commit to maintaining it. I haven't seen any volunteers.
It also depends what you mean by "official". The GCC project
(gcc.gnu.org) does not provide any official binaries, only the source code.
"Official" binaries are provided by others such as Linux distributions,
hardware/software vendors, or for Windows the MinGW, MinGW-64 or Cygwin
projects.
In case of Android, I think Google can be regarded as the only entity
which could provide "official" GCC binary builds. To my knowledge their
SDK/NDK does not contain Fortran support and given that the Pascal
compiler is not part of the GCC source code but developed separately,
doesn't increase the chance of inclusion. But only the future will tell
whether they add one or the other to the SDK. However, the SDK is a
cross compiler; what you are asking for is a compiler which not only
compiles for Android but also runs on Android. Given that this is a very
special purpose, I think it is pretty unlikely that Google will offer
such an app. (That's my educated guess, future my prove or disprove this
guess.)
Hence, – unless you can convince Google – you have to search for another
entity which could offer some 'official' build. At the moment, I do not
see any semi-official entity which would do this.
One possibility is to use Ubuntu – it presumably has a full GCC and runs
on Android devices. However, it runs GNU/Linux and not Android. Cf.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Nexus7 and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_for_Android
Tobias
