Re: [Ekiga-list] Ekiga on Android

[Jānis Rukšāns <thedogfarted gmail com>]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:21 PM, John Hughes <john calva com> wrote:
> On 24/08/11 23:14, Jānis Rukšāns wrote:
>> 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.

Sure it works but as far as I know uClibc is the default C library on Android.

I'm not saying it is not possible to get Ekiga to run on droid. I know
that much of the Debian has been ported, including C++ library, X and
GTK. It's just that I get the impression that many people hear
Android, think Linux and assume that running any Linux software is
simply a matter of cross compilation.


PS. This is why I'm waiting to see what will happen with N9 instead of
buying a droid phone.
-- 
Ian