I'm almost done refactoring #Smithereen to use libvips...

I'm almost done refactoring #Smithereen to use libvips (image manipulation library) via JNA, without an additional JNI wrapper thing that needs to be built for every OS+CPU and is just an annoyance to deal with.

As a side effect, with very little effort and zero DLLs compiled myself, I was able to run it on Windows, because why not. To anyone saying "Java is heavy": here it's running on the old-ass laptop I bought at a thrift store to test Telegram calls.

@activitypub #activitypub #mastodev

Like 26 Jul 2021 at 16:49 | Open on mastodon.social

7 comments

Gregory

I wonder if it's possible to run it on an Android phone? You should be able to install a JRE with something like Termux 🤔
And there's prebuilt libvips for Linux on ARM anyway

26 Jul 2021 at 17:17 | Open on mastodon.social

a1ba-nyan

@grishka I should run it on e2k.
Though it will be boring. :)

26 Jul 2021 at 17:19 | Open on expired.mentality.rip

Gregory

@a1batross it's x86 right?

26 Jul 2021 at 17:19 | Open on mastodon.social

a1ba-nyan

@grishka nope. :)))

26 Jul 2021 at 17:19 | Open on expired.mentality.rip

Gregory

@a1batross huh. Well, if there's Java for it... And you'll have to build libvips yourself.

26 Jul 2021 at 17:20 | Open on mastodon.social

a1ba-nyan

@grishka there is. Though it's stuck on 11 version.

btw already ran pleroma on it

26 Jul 2021 at 17:25 | Open on expired.mentality.rip

Gregory

Or the more cursed approach: just compile the thing with Android SDK. Except it doesn't support Java 15. Yet. And I use some new features like switch statements that return values.

26 Jul 2021 at 17:19 | Open on mastodon.social