[Simh] Problems running simH in Android

[John Forecast]

Works fine for me - LineageOS 14.1 (which is basically Nougat 7.1) on a Nexus 7 tablet.

  John.

> On May 9, 2018, at 2:49 PM, 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 <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 <mailto:Mark at infocomm.com>>; Ray Jewhurst <raywjewhurst at gmail.com <mailto:raywjewhurst at gmail.com>>; simh <simH at trailing-edge.com <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto:raywjewhurst at gmail.com>>; simh <simH at trailing-edge.com <mailto: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 <mailto:Mark at infocomm.com>>; Ray Jewhurst <raywjewhurst at gmail.com <mailto:raywjewhurst at gmail.com>>; simh <simH at trailing-edge.com <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto:raywjewhurst at gmail.com>>; simh <simH at trailing-edge.com <mailto: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 <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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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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