joncampbell123 commented 5 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. No

Describe the solution you'd like Steps listed to setup, compile, and generate an APK for DOSBox-X for Android OS. Help is wanted for this. ARM support for dynrec would be useful on Android since most are ARM based.

Additional context My Android devices (cell phone and tablet) are Android 4.x (maybe 5.x) as a baseline. I expect the port to use SDL2 because SDL2 provides touchscreen input where SDL1 does not.

joncampbell123 commented 5 years ago

If possible the Android UI portion should run in a separate thread so that DOSBox-X hanging does not prevent the UI from responding.

joncampbell123 commented 5 years ago

Another reminder: Android applications can take input from a keyboard. Not just the onscreen keyboard, but also from a bluetooth keyboard paired with the Android device.

sikthehedgehog commented 5 years ago

Keyboard can come from USB too I believe (no idea if it's a separate API or not, just making sure to get bases covered). Not every phone will recognize a keyboard over USB (or some other devices), however.

joncampbell123 commented 5 years ago

@sikthehedgehog I'm sure if it comes in through USB that it probably comes in through the same API as well. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to use a USB keyboard with most of your favorite Android apps.

cnnn commented 5 years ago

I have a port to iOS with the 0.82.12 build, using https://github.com/litchie/dospad as a base project. If there’s an interest I can submit a PR. For Android I came across this repo that could be helpful https://github.com/meesokim/dosbox.

joncampbell123 commented 5 years ago

Pull requests for iOS support are welcome, as long as they are in small incremental segments that aren't disruptive to this main project.

I'll look at the Android port.

strikersix23 commented 5 years ago

Any updates on this?

joncampbell123 commented 5 years ago

Any takers on this? I lack the experience required to compile DOSBox-X for Android.

strikersix23 commented 5 years ago

i know terminal emulation with termux is possible with that but other than that i dont know

strikersix23 commented 5 years ago

I created crude source code but I cant work on it any further without gradle

strikersix23 commented 5 years ago

Repo https://github.com/strikersix23/dosbox-x-ae.git

strikersix23 commented 5 years ago

Its in a zip no garrentees it will work it uses vary old wrapper

joncampbell123 commented 5 years ago

How do you build it?

Merging changes is easier if the source code is in the repository, not in a zip file in a repository.

git can't diff the contents of ZIP files.

strikersix23 commented 5 years ago

Its based off dosbox turbo source with updated sdl I dobt have enough experience to convert it to gradle

12101111 commented 4 years ago

I can run dosbox-x in Termux

strikersix23 commented 4 years ago

How did you compile it on termux

xTMODx commented 3 years ago

Phones nowadays are really powerfull, I hope this will get a port to android.

ElTentakel commented 2 years ago

How did you compile it on termux

I'm not as far, but here is my first try:

apt install git build-essential
git clone https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x.git 
cd dosbox-x
find . -name 'config.sub' -exec chmod u+w '{}' \; -exec cp -f "${PREFIX}/share/libtool/build-aux/config.sub" '{}' \;
find . -name 'config.guess' -exec chmod u+w '{}' \; -exec cp -f "${PREFIX}/share/libtool/build-aux/config.guess" '{}' \;
./build

The issue I encountered was:

./core_dynrec/../../fpu/fpu_instructions_longdouble.h:29:12: fatal error: 'fpu_control.h' file not found

So I assume the glib headers are missing:

https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/fpu_005fcontrol_002eh.html

I have no time now to look up a solution, but maybe it helps someone