rusty_v8 on android

[boreal crypt]

@earnest saddle hello, sorry for the ping, but do you have a solution to building rusty_v8 on android?

I tried both on windows and on linux, both fail with the same error

[earnest saddle]

i dont

what do you want to do tho?

run deno on android?

or embed?

[boreal crypt]

run deno core to use js as a scripting language for modding for a game

[earnest saddle]

im afraid you're out of luck

[boreal crypt]

F to me then

will explore alternative options then

not Boa tho, that thing is super slow

[earnest saddle]

best bet is to use the mid ass js api from androidx

which is garbage

[boreal crypt]

Problem is: I alo want to ship desktop version

[earnest saddle]

or if you can compile the game to wasm and then use an android webview

[earnest saddle]

what are you using for desktop?

[boreal crypt]

Bevy for everything

as engine

[earnest saddle]

well

JNI hell time then

or just WASM

[boreal crypt]

If worst come to worst I will just use Rhai/Rune

or port Miniscript to Rust

[earnest saddle]

wait actually

[earnest saddle]

.

android already ships v8

[boreal crypt]

JS is more of a "luxury pick" whenever possible

[earnest saddle]

to some extent

is size an issue?

you can embed spidermonkey instead of v8

[boreal crypt]

Interracting with platform native API is more effort than it's worth for my use case

I'm looking at https://github.com/HiRoFa/quickjs_es_runtime rn

but I will check spidermonkey too

I want to ideally keep my scripting engine under 30 MB

[earnest saddle]

https://github.com/servo/mozjs well nvm

[earnest saddle]

ehhhh

its not that bad

wait how does bevy package for android?

does it give you a staticlib?

with native activity?

[boreal crypt]

https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/tree/main/examples#android

No idea

[earnest saddle]

last i checked

it used cargo-apk under hood

so hnmmm

[boreal crypt]

they still do

[earnest saddle]

does it give you an apk?

or just a .so ?

[boreal crypt]

Ugh, I don't have ready project for that

give me 15 mins

[earnest saddle]

give me like 5 min need to go do dishes

kk

[boreal crypt]

UGh

I don't think I can build it any time soon

weird linking errors

[earnest saddle]

[silent quest]

hey folks, did you have any success compiling to Android? I'm also trying to embed the v8 using deno_core, in my desktop app it's already working my v8 integration, I saw rusty_v8 v0.42.1 was the last version with android support

It seems it compiles fine in my local env (V8_FROM_SOURCE=1 cargo build in v8 ), but I'm getting stuck running cargo build for deno

[earnest saddle]

wdym "stuck"?

[silent quest]

The V8 compiles fine, but when I try to build the deno crate, it throws the same error as juh9870 posted (the second message)