[Ohrrpgce] Android port

Sat Jun 1 04:00:54 PDT 2013

http://tmc.castleparadox.com/pics/android-shot2.png

A few more debugging sessions, and I've gotten the port working on a
2.2 phone and 4.2.2 emulator. So far the only brokenness that I've
seen is in the file browser. autotest.rpg passes, though I haven't
tried comparing the screenshots. Although I actually got this far a
week ago, it took me several days to clean things up, e.g. removing
hardcoded paths, fixing the build systems, and fixing various problems
with bad path variables I didn't run into before. I've rewritten the
compile instructions. Do a git pull on both git repositories and
follow the new instructions. Compiling FB actually became more
complicated when I did things the proper way.
http://rpg.hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce/Compiling_for_Android

I put lots of info on the wiki:
http://rpg.hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce/Android_Port

Here's a precompiled .apk to play with if you want, although it's too
early to be asking for testing.
http://tmc.castleparadox.com/ohr/ohrrpgce-game-2013-06-01.apk
Some of the most obvious problems (see the wiki page for more):
-controls are awkward. But at least you can use the builtin SDL
configuration menu to adjust key bindings and button sizes and
positions
-midi doesn't play, simply because I didn't include instrument patches
for timidity. The suggested patches are 18MB. Can we find a smaller
set?
-directories don't appear in the browser
-there are long pauses in a couple places

On my low end phone I can seemingly play typical games at full speed,
although only just. Bell of Chaos runs at less than 4 fps though.

On 17 May 2013 07:50, Seth Hetu <seth.hetu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Seems pretty similar to my config.mk. Good to know I'm on the right track!
> I'll give it another go if I can drum up some motivation later (the sample
> sdl-android app is strangely giving me an error).
>
> -->Seth
>
>
> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Ah, yes, setting TARGET_ARCH wasn't sufficient. Here is my config.mk.
>> I am using a Slackware64 14.0 multilib system. I haven't edited
>> anything else:
>>
>> ENABLE_PREFIX=1
>> CFLAGS := -Wfatal-errors -O2 -I/usr/lib/libffi-3.0.11/include/ -g -m32
>> TARGET_ARCH=x86
>> prefix=/home/ralph/local/fbc-0.90
>> V=1
>>
>> Linking with libffi is optional: you can add -DDISABLE_FFI.
>>
>> On 17 May 2013 04:10, Seth Hetu <seth.hetu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > While compiling this on a 64-bit system, it seems that setting
>> > TARGET_ARCH
>> > is not sufficient. In particular:
>> >     * gcc will freak out regarding assembly functions and "operand type
>> > mismatch" errors.
>> >     * gcc won't find libffi (on Ubuntu), as it's in a special
>> > "i686-linux-gnu" directory inside "/usr/include".
>> >
>> > To get around this, I just hacked the makefile, changing:
>> >
>> > ALLCFLAGS := -Wall -Werror-implicit-function-declaration
>> >
>> > ..to:
>> > ALLCFLAGS := -Wall -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -m32
>> > -I/usr/include/i686-linux-gnu
>> >
>> > If you got this working on a 64-bit system some other way, let me know
>> > (I'm
>> > really bad at makefiles).
>> >
>> > -->Seth
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I did some work on the Android port today, and got to the point of
>> >> being able to compile everything, create an .apk, and install it. It
>> >> currently crashes almost instantly with only the following error
>> >> message (an earlier version at least managed to initialise everything
>> >> except the native code).
>> >>
>> >> D/dalvikvm( 9355): Trying to load lib
>> >> /data/app-lib/com.hamsterrepublic.ohrrpgce.game-1/libapplication.so
>> >> 0x41f5cdf0
>> >> I/ActivityManager(  495): Process com.hamsterrepublic.ohrrpgce.game
>> >> (pid 9355) has died.
>> >>
>> >> Instructions are here:
>> >> http://rpg.hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce/Compiling_for_Android
>> >>
>> >> I've automated all the drudgery. Now the hard work remains: debugging,
>> >> platform and device differences, Android-specific OHR modifications,
>> >> touch input, and lots of customisations to all the stuff in the SDL
>> >> port. For example I'm not very happy with the way that emulated
>> >> keyboard input works. we will want per-game settings without having to
>> >> recompile.
>> >>
>> >> However I'm taking a break for a while. I have too much else to do.
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