[Simh] Problems running simH in Android

[Ray Jewhurst]

Lollipop works too.

On Wed, May 9, 2018, 4:21 PM Mark Abene <phiber at phiber.com> wrote:

> 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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