these days the usual way to run GNU APL on non-standard platforms is to encapsulate its APL machine
into libapl and to link it with your own front-end. I.e. ./configure --with-libapl.
As an alternative, you can also build GNU APL as a web application like here:
http://juergen-sauermann.de/try-GNU-APL
the complete code for that is contained in subdirectory websock, see websock/README.
It also comes with a nice APL keyboard.
Best Regards,
Jürgen
On 3/14/21 9:59 AM, Russtopia wrote:
I was happy to find out a few weeks ago that it's possible to build GNU APL on Android within the termux environment (a kind of Debian container that runs inside Android). I forgot to capture the exact configure options I used, as I was running out of storage on my phone so I had to remove the SVN build tree afterwards; but it wasn't too strange. If anyone's curious I can rebuild again and log what I had to do ( I think I had to edit one #include statement somewhere, but I forget ...)
However I was stumped trying to find a good way to input APL as the only APL keyboard I could find on the Play Store was a horribly-outdated thing that didn't work at all.
Happily, I found out tonight via a tip from @Adám on https://apl.chat/ that there's a fork of the "Hacker's Keyboard" with an APL language/layout and it works really nicely!
The 5-row configuration gives all the APL symbols as expected with long-press of each key, for a great mobile APL scratchpad!
-Russ
