Re: [Ekiga-list] Ekiga on Android

[John Hughes <john Calva COM>]

On 24/08/11 23:14, Jānis Rukšāns wrote:
> No, linphone has an Android-specific port. In general, no Linux [1]
> software that is non-trivial, can run on Android unmodified. First,
> Android is about just as much Linux as OS X is FreeBSD. Or even less -
> it doesn't even have X (well you can install X but it's pain in the
> ass).
That is important.
>   Second, Android runs on ARM while most desktop software is
> written assuming it will run on x86 only.
>    
That is not (or shouldn't be).  We learned not to write code that 
depends on word size and byte/bit order a long time ago.  (Perhaps too 
long ago for some of the younger among us).
> Making Ekiga to run on Android would be a very tedious task. One would
> have to make sure Ekiga and every library it depends on (including the
> standard C++ library) builds and runs correctly on ARM,
Already been done.  See Debian and N900.  Now, porting it all to 
Android, that's harder.
>   using uClibc
> instead of a full-fledged C library.
Why?  Glibc works ok on ARM.
>   And then probably make some
> additional adjustments to adapt the small screen size of a phone.
>    
Yup, UI is hard.
> [1] Here I mean Linux as commonly understood - GNU operating system
> using Linux kernel. This is where the GNU/Linux vs Linux distinction
> becomes really important.
>
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