Android question: how to connect to swank, running on android?

[Daniel Kochmański]

AFAIR I was connecting over wifi to the REPL on my Android device.

If the port forwarding works fine - do you have some logs either from 
emacs or running ECL process which show what's going on?

Daniel


On 19.08.2017 22:24, PR wrote:
> thanks to both of you, but it still doesn't work.
>
>  From the PC, I did:
>
>    $ adb forward tcp:4005 tcp:4005
>
> so, this part works.
>
> Daniel, I already "stole" the functions from the "ecl-android" project
> (prior to post my question); without them I would have been lost...
>
> So, I'll have to play around a little... Of course I will post the
> solution here, if I get it to work.
>
> Paul
>
>
> 2017-08-19 17:27 GMT+02:00, Daniel Kochmański <daniel at turtleware.eu>:
>> Hello,
>>
>> swank listens by default only for localhost connections (for a good
>> reason!). To force it to listen for connections from specific host other
>> than 127.0.0.1 you have to bind swank::*loopback-interface* to it. For
>> instance to listen for connections from everywhere on port 4005 you
>> could use functions from
>> https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/ecl/ecl-android/blob/master/assets/lisp/etc/user.lisp
>>
>> (defun start-swank ()
>>     (format t "Starting swank server~%")
>>     (mp:process-run-function
>>      "SLIME-listener"
>>      (lambda ()
>>        (let ((swank::*loopback-interface* "0.0.0.0"))
>>          (swank:create-server :port 4005
>>                               :dont-close t
>>                               ;; :style nil #|:spawn|#
>>                               )))))
>>
>> (defun stop-swank ()
>>     (format t "Stopping swank server~%")
>>     (swank:stop-server 4005)
>>     (format t ";; Swank off-line~%"))
>>
>> Note, that newest slime/swank should support :spawn communication style
>> just fine with ECL (my PR was merged lately). In that case it should be
>> enough to call create-server which won't block (note that in the example
>> above we create separate thread for that).
>>
>> Since ECL isn't run from CLI but as shared library, it is useful to
>> define implementation for implementation program (don't remeber for
>> sure, but I think lack of this caused some problems later)
>>
>> (defimplementation lisp-implementation-program ()
>>     "Return the argv[0] of the running Lisp process, or NIL."
>>     "org.lisp.ecl")
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>>
>> On 19.08.2017 16:32, PR wrote:
>>> Hi again,
>>>
>>> so, the progress of the new android REPL is going well, it already
>>> runs Quicklisp and can start swank, and right there I'm stuck now:
>>> How does one connect from the local computer to the android device,
>>> which is running the SLIME-listener?
>>>
>>> They are connected via USB, and the device is /not/ rooted.
>>>
>>> Since this is certainly of public interest, I ask here, thanks for any
>>> help!
>>> Below the link to the current APK of the REPL (you'll need android
>>> version >= 4.1, API >= 16):
>>>
>>> http://lights-of-holiness.eu/tmp/repl.apk
>>>
>>> After launching the app, do (there is currently no feedback of the
>>> progress, sorry):
>>>
>>>     (quicklisp)   ; should take less than a minute, with a fast internet
>>> connection
>>>     (start-swank) ; same as above (needs to byte-compile all 'contribs')
>>>
>>> If I run:
>>>
>>>     (mp:all-processes)
>>>
>>> it lists the running "SLIME-listener" process, so it seems to work...
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help!
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>
>>