Re: Scala on Android

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>
> Hi all:
>
> Yet another very interesting post on how to setup
> Scala on Android environment.
>
> Steps suggested by Robey:
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> First, copy scala-compiler.jar and scala-library.jar out from
> your scala-home and into your android project folder. Since the
> compiler is only needed for building, and the library is the
> only one you'll need installed, I made a folder for the compiler
> and put the library in libs/.
>
> $ mkdir scala-compiler
> $ cp $SCALA_HOME/lib/scala-compiler.jar scala-compiler/
> $ cp $SCALA_HOME/lib/scala-library.jar libs/
>
> Second, edit build.xml and change the compile task to look like this:
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> <target name="compile" depends="dirs, resource-src, aidl">
> <javac encoding="ascii" target="1.5" debug="true" extdirs=""
> srcdir="${srcdir}" includes="**/*.java"
> destdir="${outdir-classes}"
> bootclasspath="${android-jar}">
> <classpath>
> <fileset dir="${external-libs}" includes="*.jar"/>
> </classpath>
> </javac>
> <taskdef resource="scala/tools/ant/antlib.xml"
> classpath="scala-compiler/scala-compiler.jar:${external-libs-ospath}/scala-library.jar"
> />
> <scalac force="changed" deprecation="on"
> srcdir="${srcdir}" includes="**/*.scala"
> destdir="${outdir-classes}"
> bootclasspath="${android-jar}">
> <classpath>
> <fileset dir="${external-libs}" includes="*.jar"/>
> </classpath>
> </scalac>
> </target>
>
> Third, you need to edit dx from the android toolkit so that it
> gets lots of memory. Uncomment the line with the java heap
> option and give it a lot of memory, like 512MB ("-Xmx=512m"). It
> needs this because dex is going to convert the entire scala
> library into dalvik. Without a lot of memory, it will run out of
> heap space.
>
> Checkout the complete post here
> http://robey.livejournal.com/54348.html
>
> thanks
> Saifi.
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