I've been using Racket for academic purposes and decided to try it running on android. I was able to get it built for android. This post details the efforts made and is also meant to be sort of a log entry.
Download the source from github. Use this script to compile it on linux/mac.
It's simple to compile it for android. However the real trouble lies in getting it to run, because you need to have all the startup files and also the binary should know where to find them. So first time you run it on a android device it shows this error message
Welcome to Racket v6.7.0.3.
standard-module-name-resolver: collection not found
for module path: (submod (lib "racket/init") configure-runtime)
collection: "racket"
in collection directories:
/data/.racket/6.7.0.3/collects
/home/regnarts/workspace/scheme/android/armv5/racket/collects
standard-module-name-resolver: collection not found
for module path: racket/interactive
collection: "racket"
in collection directories:
/data/.racket/6.7.0.3/collects
/home/regnarts/workspace/scheme/android/armv5/racket/collects
standard-module-name-resolver: collection not found
for module path: racket/base
collection: "racket"
in collection directories:
/data/.racket/6.7.0.3/collects
/home/regnarts/workspace/scheme/android/armv5/racket/collects
Which is expected. Now you can fix this in two ways one is by using '-S' to specify the path that the interpreter is expected to look at. Or as the README suggests, edit the binary to change the default collects directory path name!!. You might want to go through the README and this post to get it working .
Once that is done the interpreter should start-up and behave as it would do on any other platform. However the boot time is notoriously long. Got to figure out a way to reduce it. This is not a main project but something I did to kill time. So I am not going to look into it now. However it would be really nice to get something like DRRacket to work on Android. This can be made into a app with moderate effort. But that's the story for another day.
Finally I could get my interpreter to run on racket running on Android.
Cheers!!
Download the source from github. Use this script to compile it on linux/mac.
It's simple to compile it for android. However the real trouble lies in getting it to run, because you need to have all the startup files and also the binary should know where to find them. So first time you run it on a android device it shows this error message
Welcome to Racket v6.7.0.3.
standard-module-name-resolver: collection not found
for module path: (submod (lib "racket/init") configure-runtime)
collection: "racket"
in collection directories:
/data/.racket/6.7.0.3/collects
/home/regnarts/workspace/scheme/android/armv5/racket/collects
standard-module-name-resolver: collection not found
for module path: racket/interactive
collection: "racket"
in collection directories:
/data/.racket/6.7.0.3/collects
/home/regnarts/workspace/scheme/android/armv5/racket/collects
standard-module-name-resolver: collection not found
for module path: racket/base
collection: "racket"
in collection directories:
/data/.racket/6.7.0.3/collects
/home/regnarts/workspace/scheme/android/armv5/racket/collects
Which is expected. Now you can fix this in two ways one is by using '-S' to specify the path that the interpreter is expected to look at. Or as the README suggests, edit the binary to change the default collects directory path name!!. You might want to go through the README and this post to get it working .
Once that is done the interpreter should start-up and behave as it would do on any other platform. However the boot time is notoriously long. Got to figure out a way to reduce it. This is not a main project but something I did to kill time. So I am not going to look into it now. However it would be really nice to get something like DRRacket to work on Android. This can be made into a app with moderate effort. But that's the story for another day.
Finally I could get my interpreter to run on racket running on Android.
Cheers!!
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