Re: [fluid-dev] Official android support.

[Carlo Bramini]

It is also true that the dependency to GLIB is not a big problem, at least if 
someone wants.
You have 99% of chance to get a working copy by just replacing 3 files 
(fluid_sys.c, fluid_sys.h and fluidsynth_priv.h) with others written for 
another specific platform. I did it in my fully native native build for 
Windows. For my embedded ARM microcontroller, I recovered these files from the 
fork for Android and I linked against pthreads-emb, although it is probably 
better to have something more lightweight, like FreeRTOS or a cooperative 
scheduler. For me, it looks much more complex to write the missing audio 
out/midi in drivers than GLIB.

Sincerely.


> Il 23 luglio 2018 alle 21.52 Nick Heyworth <address@hidden> ha scritto: 
> 
> So you have an unofficial port of glib that can be used to build FluidSynth 
> so it runs on Android?
> 
> Any chance you can share the binaries (I’m hopeless at building Linux stuff 
> using the command line, only know how to build Android apps) and a simple 
> example?
> 
> All I want to do is load an arbitrary sound font and send MIDI on/off events 
> to play sounds. I don’t even care about updates to the lib as long as it just 
> works.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Nick
> 
> From: [Philippe Simons]()
> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2018 9:18 AM
> To: [FluidSynth mailing list]()
> Subject: Re: [fluid-dev] Official android support.
> 
> So do I, but this is not going to happens... like ever.
> The issue can be summarised to "get rid of glib dependancy".
> glib is used as portable layer for alot of FluidSynth internals, 
> unfortunately glib has no Android port...
> So we are stuck with unofficial forks like mine...
> 
> I try to keep it updated with upstream, merge conflicts are minimals but I 
> can only give it so much time.
> BTW, I'm always open to PR
> 
> Philippe
> 
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 6:44 PM Nick Heyworth < address@hidden()> wrote: 
> > I would love that! Also suggested it a few months ago.
> > 
> > Nick
> > 
> > From: [Carlo Bramini]()
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 12:52 PM
> > To: address@hidden()
> > Subject: [fluid-dev] Official android support.
> > 
> > Hello everyone,
> > 
> > Although it is a bit late for the next upcoming release, I think that it 
> > would be worth to include native audio out and midi in drivers for Android 
> > in the official source repository. Afterall we are talking about the most 
> > used mobile operating system of the world. I know that there are some forks 
> > of the repository with some tries for adding this type of support but 
> > having that officially supported would be a nice feature in my opinion.
> > 
> > Just keep this as a possible addition to be implemented/included one day in 
> > the future.
> > 
> > Sincerely.
> > 
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