On Jan 17, 2012 5:25 AM, "Jeroen Demeyer" <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote: > > On 2012-01-16 17:01, William Stein wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 4:49 AM, mmarco <mma...@unizar.es> wrote: > >> Is there any hope of compiling sage for android? or the only way to > >> have sage running on a tablet would be to install a linux system on > >> top of the android one? > > > > My impression is that the only way to build software for Android is > > via *cross compiling*. It would be extremely difficult to > > cross-compile Sage (at least requiring rewriting key parts of build > > systems, etc.). > This is totally true. I have in the past experimented with > cross-compiling PARI and gave up. This is just one package, and > probably not even the hardest one. So before even thinking about > cross-compiling Sage, try cross-compiling PARI.
FWIW, This reminds me that in Boston a number theorist named Simon Wong showed me Pari running on his Android tablet as a proper android app with a GUI. > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
