Can anyone see any path towards running Julia code on iOS / Android? It would be fantastic to be able to solve the two-language problem (e.g. prototyping in Python and deploying in C++). The idea would be to release an app on the app-store that contains a Julia kernel. Would it be possible to get…

Just android. ios would he a lot harder due to the restrictions they have on apps and executing native code.

i have a github account with a fork of julia. Termux provides a llvm clang etc and i have added gcc with gfortran and openblas. etc This allows me to compile julia on device. Unless someone with more knowledge of Julia than i can get cross compiling working ( there is one guy trying afaik ) what i …

The issue you’re going to run into with iOS is not App Store restrictions, but the fact that you cannot mark writable memory pages as executable. This is a security “feature”, but also means that any sort of JIT compilation just plain does not work.

That’s a good knowledge. Should it be possible to precompile Julia code & ship the binary on iOS? Basically I’m designing a complex algorithm that ships as a (binary) library. I’m currently prototyping in Python and then coding up in C++. It would be fantastic if I was able to simply code it up i…

In theory, yes, there should be no issue with shipping a compiled binary. (BTW, for background I used to work on MacRuby and am familiar with the techniques that had to be employed for RubyMotion to deploy on iOS.) The problem, of course, is maintaining dynamism while doing so. If all your types a…

Hello its-pointless, could you please tell me how did you install gfortran on your device? termux doesn’t have gfortran, libatomic nor awk, which are build dependencies too.

sure i have a seperate repo with all the needed packages at https://github.com/its-pointless/gcc_termux if you follow instructions in README.txt its relatively straight forward. From there you can install julia directly or you can clone https://github.com/its-pointless/julia and build it yourself.

I’m cloning your julia fork, I’m exited! :slight_smile: Thanks!

I’m getting uv.h not found, and “cannot find lbthread”, I’m reading all your comments I can find, but I’m not sure how to proceed. :open_mouth: I’m stuck at the run: “setupclang and setupgcc-7” I don’t understand where should I get those commands.

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