GNUstep on Android

[Mathias Bauer]

Hi,

what is the current status for GNUstep base on Android?

I did some research and found some activity, but mostly older stuff. 
Nowadays one year already is quite old. :-)

From an external view point I see the following possible problems:

- as Linux/ARM showed us, exception handling and unwinding on ARM don't 
work properly with clang <= 3.4, but that's the clang version used by 
the Android NDK; so should we expect similar problems there?

- I couldn't find reliable information about libdispatch on Android, and 
AFAIR Android does not have a fully compliant implemenation of pthreads, 
so I'm concerned if the pthread-workingqueue lib (a prerequisite of 
libdispatch) works on Android

- GNUstep base has some prerequisites like libxml2 etc.; I think they 
all need to be compiled for Android also

- I wonder if there is an NSNetServices implementation in GNUstep that 
works on Android

I know that there is apportable.com, but they claim not to use GNUstep 
anymore, so this does not give any hints about the feasability of using 
GNUstep/libobjc2/libdispatch for porting Objective-C code (at least code 
that does not use GUI classes) from iOS to Android.

Regards,
Mathias