[Simh] Problems running simH in Android

[Mark Abene]

Volume-down is the Control key in termux. Holding volume-down and hitting
the 'e' key works just fine.

-Mark


On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 11:49 AM, Mark Pizzolato <Mark at infocomm.com> wrote:

> The github master branch code should now work under termux on Android for
> at least Marshmallow on up.  I have tested Marshmallow and Oreo.  I would
> appreciate confirmation on other Android versions:
>
>
>
> 1)      Install termux from the Google Play Store
>
> 2)      Under termux, Install the tool chain:
>
>     $ pkg install clang make git
>
> 3)      Testing with:
>
>     $ git clone https://github.com/simh/simh
>
>     $ cd simh
>
>     $ make vax
>
>     $ BIN/vax
>
>     sim> B
>
> If you end up at the >>> prompt everything looks good.  If you did this
> without a physical keyboard connected, you won’t be able to type Control-E
> to get back to the sim> prompt.  Just enter B ZZZ which is an unknown
> device and the boot ROM will halt returning you to the sim> prompt.
>
>
>
> Once you get that far, all the other simulators should build fine and be
> usable pretty much like on most other Linux environments.  Things which
> require root access won’t work since termux doesn’t give you that.  It
> would be interesting to know if NAT mode networking works for the VAX
> simulators…
>
>
>
> *From:* Mark Pizzolato
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 8, 2018 11:00 PM
>
> *To:* Mark Pizzolato <Mark at infocomm.com>; Ray Jewhurst <
> raywjewhurst at gmail.com>; simh <simH at trailing-edge.com>
> *Subject:* RE: [Simh] Problems running simH in Android
>
>
>
> Hi Ray,
>
>
>
> Give the latest github code a try.
>
>
>
> BTW, what Android version is running on your phone/tablet?
>
>
>
> What is the output of ‘uname –a’ in your termux session?
>
>
>
> -          Mark
>
>   __
>
> *From:* Simh [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com
> <simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com>] *On Behalf Of *Mark Pizzolato
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 8, 2018 8:13 AM
> *To:* Ray Jewhurst <raywjewhurst at gmail.com>; simh <simH at trailing-edge.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [Simh] Problems running simH in Android
>
>
>
> To follow up a little more on this.
>
>
>
> The call to tcsetattr() is failing with errno: 13 – Permission denied
>
>
>
> *From:* Mark Pizzolato
> *Sent:* Sunday, May 6, 2018 11:47 PM
> *To:* Mark Pizzolato <Mark at infocomm.com>; Ray Jewhurst <
> raywjewhurst at gmail.com>; simh <simH at trailing-edge.com>
> *Subject:* RE: [Simh] Problems running simH in Android
>
>
>
> I did a little digging and struggled with typing a whole bunch on my
>
> phone.
>
>
>
> The problem you’re seeing is due to the Linux OS environment you’re
>
> running under doesn’t support ‘raw’ mode for terminal I/O.  When you
>
> start a simulator the traffic to/from the simulated console device is
>
> expected to be exactly the characters that the user types on the console
>
> keyboard.  To achieve this, the current tt mode is gathered with
> tcgetattr()
>
> then those attributes are adjusted so that every character typed is
> received
>
> without any interpretation by the OS and output is also not translated
> (i.e.
>
> \n only sends a LF character instead of CRLF characters).  The error
> message,
>
> you seeing is due to the call a tcsetattr() failing.
>
>
>
> *From:* Simh [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com
> <simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com>] *On Behalf Of *Mark Pizzolato
> *Sent:* Saturday, May 5, 2018 8:38 PM
> *To:* Ray Jewhurst <raywjewhurst at gmail.com>; simh <simH at trailing-edge.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [Simh] Problems running simH in Android
>
>
>
> If you’re not comfortable digging into this yourself, then please create
> an
>
> Issue at https://github.com/simh/simh/issues and spell out exactly how to
>
> recreate your setup and reproduce the problem.
>
>
>
> *From:* Simh [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com
> <simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com>] *On Behalf Of *Ray Jewhurst
> *Sent:* Saturday, May 5, 2018 5:48 PM
> *To:* simh <simH at trailing-edge.com>
> *Subject:* [Simh] Problems running simH in Android
>
>
>
> Greetings
>
>
>
> I have been trying forever to get simh to run under the Termux Android
> shell app and got very close but no cigar. It builds okay but then when I
> try running it, it starts fine but when I go to run an OS,  I get this:
>
>
>
> PDP-11 simulator V4.0-0 Current        git commit id: f2f4bfa8
>
> sim> do rt1154f.ini
>
> Disabling XQ
>
> rt1154f.ini-3> b rk0
>
> sim_ttrun() returned: Console input I/O error
>
> sim>
>
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Ray
>
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