[Python-Dev] support of the android platform

Eric Snow ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com
Mon Apr 25 10:36:34 EDT 2016


On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 1:20 AM, Xavier de Gaye <xdegaye at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

How does this relate to http://bugs.python.org/issue23496?

-eric


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