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

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.