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I'm slightly confused by this paragraph, what is being emulated and aren't most android devices 32 bit these days? "It comes with PicoLisp binaries for Arm64 p
by kristianp 8y ago
I'm slightly confused by this paragraph, what is being emulated and aren't most android devices 32 bit these days?
"It comes with PicoLisp binaries for Arm64 pre-installed. If your device has an Arm32 CPU, you can - after installing the PilBox App but before starting it - download and install the emulator version https://software-lab.de/arm32.zip https://software-lab.de/arm32.zip. If this was done by mistake, you can revert to Arm64 binaries with..."
- yellowapple 8y agoI'm assuming the 32-bit version emulates a 64-bit ARM CPU. Most Android devices are 32-bit, but a lot of the newer ones are 64-bit.
- jacknews 8y agoI'm confused too, how do you install the zip file? Even one of the feedback posts mentions problem solved by "just installing the emulator version". So I download arm32.zip in, say, firefox, and then what? Open it with PilBox just crashes. Clicking it in a file manager shows me the zip contents. Am I supposed to extract it somewhere? I'm not rooted so can't see the app dirs.
- derjames 8y ago(1)download the zip (2)go to the downloads folder (3)tap/click the file (4) choose to open with pilbox
- Regenaxer 8y agoThe easiest way seems to be to download it with a browser, and then immediately click on "open" in the little dialog which pops up in the browser after it downloaded the zip. It is then passed to PilBox. Clicking on a Zip in the Downloads app works on some devices, but other systems only offer to extract the files which does not help here.
- Regenaxer 8y agoThe 64-bit version of PicoLisp is written in a generic assembler which is then built for target CPUs like x86-64, arm64, ppc64 or "emu". In "emu" the target "CPU" is plain-C, and this is used if the Android device is physically only 32 bit.