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<h2>Make newLISP for Android Linux</h2>
<p>Download the latest version of the newLISP Android source distribution from the
<a href="http://www.newlisp.org/index.cgi?page=Downloads"> downloads page</a></p>
<p>This package can also be made using the following command from the main distribution directory:</p>
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make android_dist
# or
make android_dist_utf8
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<p>This will make a newlisp-ndk-x.x.x.tgz in the parent directory of the distribution directory where x.x.x is the version number.</p>
<p>It is missing the <tt>semaphore</tt>, which requires libraries that do not exist on Android. It also does not contain the READLINE compile flavor. UTF8 support can be added by making a source package using <tt>make android_dist_utf8</tt>.</p>
<p>In order for <tt>share</tt> to work for more than 4072 bytes a <tt>/data/tmp</tt> directory must be created on the Android device. This directory is also required if more than 4072 data are transferred when using the <tt>spawn</tt> function.</p>
<p>Thanks to <i>Kanen Flowers</i> from <a href="http://www.scruffy.tv/">www.scruffy.tv</a> for doing the adaptation to the Android flavor of Linux and putting together the following instructions:</p>
<h2>Steps to compile:</h2>
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<li>Download the <a href="http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/ndk/index.html">android-ndk</a></li>
<li>Make sure your environment works (see above documentation) on your platform</li>
<li>Unpack and put newlisp-ndk in the android-ndk directory</li>
<li>Compile newlisp</li>
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kanen (~/Code/android-ndk)$ ./ndk-build -C newlisp-ndk/
make: Entering directory `/Users/kanen/Code/android-ndk/newlisp-ndk'
Compile thumb : newlisp <= newlisp.c
Compile thumb : newlisp <= nl-symbol.c
Compile thumb : newlisp <= nl-math.c
Compile thumb : newlisp <= nl-list.c
Compile thumb : newlisp <= nl-liststr.c
Compile thumb : newlisp <= nl-string.c
Compile thumb : newlisp <= nl-sock.c
Compile thumb : newlisp <= nl-import.c
Compile thumb : newlisp <= nl-xml.c
Compile thumb : newlisp <= nl-web.c
Compile thumb : newlisp <= nl-matrix.c
Compile thumb : newlisp <= nl-debug.c
Compile thumb : newlisp <= pcre.c
Compile thumb : newlisp <= nl-filesys.c
Executable : newlisp
Install : newlisp => libs/armeabi/newlisp
make: Leaving directory `/Users/kanen/Code/android-ndk/newlisp-ndk'
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<p>The binary gets put into <tt>libs/armeabi/newlisp</tt>. From there, you just have to build an Android emulator and you can copy newLISP over to it.</p>
<p>For that, you need the <a href="http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html">android-sdk</a>.</p>
<p>First, list the targets and find the armeabi version you want to use. I use Target 4, which isn't the most recent, but is the most widely deployed, at API level 15.</p>
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kanen (~/Code/android-sdk/tools)$ ./android list targets
Available Android targets:
id: 4 or "Google Inc.:Google APIs:15"
Name: Google APIs
Type: Add-On
Vendor: Google Inc.
Revision: 2
Description: Android + Google APIs
Based on Android 4.0.3 (API level 15)
ABIs : armeabi-v7a
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<p>Now, generate an emulator from that target platform:</p>
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kanen (~/Code/android-sdk/tools)$ ./android create avd -n MyEmulator -t 4
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<p>Then, run the emulator:</p>
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kanen (~/Code/android-sdk/tools)$ ./emulator -avd MyEmulator &
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<p>Attach a shell to the emulator:</p>
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kanen (~/Code/android-sdk/platform-tools)$ ./adb shell
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<p>Make sure everything's ok and create a directory for newLisp:</p>
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# mkdir /data/nl
# chmod 777 /data/nl
# exit
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<p>Copy newLisp to the emulator:</p>
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./adb push ~/Code/android-ndk/newlisp-ndk/libs/armeabi/newlisp /data/nl
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<p>Go back into the shell and run newLisp:</p>
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kanen (~/Code/android-sdk/platform-tools)$ ./adb shell
# cd /data
# cd nl
# ls
newlisp
# ./newlisp
newLISP v.10.4.5 on Linux IPv4/6, execute 'newlisp -h' for more info.
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