Grin++ (mobile) - Progress update thread by @davidtavarez

[davidtavarez]

Now there is two more post to follow the process:

Building and Running a full Grin Node (Grin++) on Android

BIG NOTES: the node is still unstable. I will keep this thread up to date. Do not waste your time trying to do this on Windows. The target for now is Android 10. The first thing that we need is the Android NDK. The Android NDK is a toolset that lets you embed components that make use of native code in your Android applications. Grin++ is written in the almighty C++ therefore we could use the Android NDK to build this little baby. At this moment we will need to download the NDK from the Canary (…

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Building Grin++ for Raspberry Pi4

One of the biggest challenges is to be able to cross-compile dependencies, that’s why Grin++ uses vcpkg, which is a cross-platform open source package manager. In order to simplify the building process I decided to use dockcross. The branch is public for everyone and can be found here: https://github.com/GrinPlusPlus/GrinPlusPlus/tree/linux-arm64 and inside there is a Dockerfile. Te process is really straight forward: Make use of linux-arm64 docker image (based on debian:stretch-20190326-slim…

I will keep this thread exclusively for the updates and the app itself.