Re: [Firebird-devel] (no subject)

[marius a. p. <ma...@gm...>]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 11:57 AM, J-L M <so4...@ho...> wrote:

>  Hello,
>
> We are trying to compile Firebird 2.1 for Android in order to use the
> embedded version in our mobile device of our software.
>
> But for the moment it seems impossible for some reasons : Android uses his
> own Libc called Bionic. And the problem is that there is a lot of missing
> features in. There is no implementation of the POSIX IPC or System V IPC
> inside, Android drop this to avoid denial-of-service. So, use of
> semaphore, shared memory, etc, is not possible.
>
> We have written a more complet document of this porterage which describes
> the problems in detail.
>
please post it to google docs

>
>  Somebody have already attempt to compile or to make an Android version
> of Firebird ?
>
I see there is some work on the firebird 3.x branch

> What would be the good way to do that ?
>
> Otherwise, how to interest Firebird developpers to make this Android
> version ? (Maybe I can create a topic in the tracker )
>

Please use the list for conversations

> Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
> Jean-Louis Meuriot
>
>
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