Re: [Gretl-users] anybody running gretl on tablets?

Am 09.01.2014 11:28, schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti: > On Thu, 9 Jan 2014, Sven Schreiber wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> has anybody out there tried to run gretl on a tablet device? The general >> idea is of course not new, but now there are Windows tablets appearing >> with Intel Atom processors and apparently regular Windows versions (not >> the earlier embedded variant), so it would seem like being as easy as on >> a desktop/laptop. >> >> Obviously it would be even more interesting to do it on some kind of >> Linux (Android, FirefoxOS, Ubuntu, etc.), but as mentioned before, I >> think the necessary software ingredients are still missing on those >> platforms. (Of course, if anybody has counterexamples we would all like >> to hear them...) > > The lion's share of the tablet OS market belongs to iOS and Android. I > can't speak about iOS, but porting gretl to Android would be quite a > feat. First, you'd have to port the libgretl library; I understand there > is some way to use gcc to cross-compile for the ARM platform, but then > one should find (or build from source) all the libraries libgretl needs: > lapack, blas, fftw3... On the other hand, apparently somenoe did manage > to port Octave to Android, so it would seem that there's some hope on > that front. Still, it wouldn't be easy. > Exactly. That's why it sounds attractive to me have to have a regular x86-style CPU (Atom) in a tablet, as in the Dell Venue (just an example), instead of ARM. I guess that it would even be possible to load a standard Linux distro on them. Maybe even dual-boot??