[pypy-dev] What stops ARMed PyPy 2.1 from working on Android?

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 5:23 PM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am certain there is no roadmap for Android or else I'd already found
> it, but still is there any list of issues to be addressed to get PyPy
> running there?
>
> http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2013/08/pypy-21-considered-armful.html
>
> Modern Android tablets are ARMv7, so after 2.1 hardware is not an
> issue. As for platform, it looks like android-scripting project is
> able to compile CPython to be run on tablet,
> http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/source/browse/#hg%2Fpython-build
>
>
> It would be nice to plug keyboard into Android tablet and start polling its API
> with PyPy...
> --
> anatoly t.

Android has a custom buildchain and some differences from normal
Linux. The short answer is "some work" and I don't really know the
extent.

Cheers,
fijal