Re: [openMSX-devel] Fwd: Get your apps ready for the 64-bit requirement by August 1, 2019

[Maarten t. H. <ma...@tr...>]

On zaterdag 2 februari 2019 12:53:41 CET Alex Wulms wrote:

> I just received forwarded mail from Google Play. To wrap it up
> shortly: if we publish new build/version of openMSX after Aug & 2019,
> then the new version must support native 64-bit code in addition to
> the native 32-bit code.
> 
> I don't know what is the impact on the Android build of openMSX. The
> forwarded mail contains links to documentation on how to become 64-bit
> compliant.

>From a quick look at the blog post I think that what we need to do is 
include both a 32-bit and 64-bit ARM .so in the APK. That should be 
fairly straightforward, as we already support 64-bit platforms and we 
have built multi-arch packages before when macOS was transitioning from 
PPC to x86.

Of course theory and practice don't always align, but I don't see major 
roadblocks in the theory part.

Note that we have yet to package openMSX with SDL2 for Android; that is 
probably more work, in particular because we have to implement touch 
controls in openMSX.

Bye,
		Maarten