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Hi,

Can anyone please help me understand how to build libsdl using the
Android NDK's standalone toolchain? I can't use the standard ndk-build
as I have to integrate with an existing build system.

I know I probably have to put the path and name of the cross-compiler in
my PATH and CC environment variables, respectively, but I assume there
is a bunch of other things that need to be done - e.g. SSE and 3DNow
probably need to be disabled (the target architecture is ARM) etc.

Thanks,

Anders Feder
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2012/1/23 Anders Feder


I think its possible to do what you want. I compile SDL_ttf this way and it works fine. My env variables are: (this is copy pasted from a Python script so you might have to adjust this if you want to use BASH or something else)


env['PATH'] = "%s/toolchains/arm-linux-androideabi-4.4.3/prebuilt/linux-x86/bin/:%s:%s/tools:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:%s" % (ANDROID_NDK, ANDROID_NDK, ANDROID_SDK, '') #env['PATH'])
    env['ARCH'] = "armeabi"
    env['SDK'] = ANDROID_SDK
    
    #env['ARCH'] = "armeabi-v7a"
    env['CFLAGS'] ="-DANDROID -mandroid -fomit-frame-pointer --sysroot %s/platforms/android-5/arch-arm" % (ANDROID_NDK)
    if env['ARCH'] == "armeabi-v7a":
       env['CFLAGS']+=" -march=armv7-a -mfloat-abi=softfp -mfpu=vfp -mthumb"
    env['CXXFLAGS'] = env['CFLAGS']
    env['CC'] = 'arm-linux-androideabi-gcc %s' % (env['CFLAGS'],)
    env['CXX'] = 'arm-linux-androideabi-g++ %s' % (env['CXXFLAGS'],)
    env['AR'] = "arm-linux-androideabi-ar"
    env['RANLIB'] = "arm-linux-androideabi-ranlib"
    env['STRIP'] = "arm-linux-androideabi-strip --strip-unneeded"
    env['MAKE'] = 'make -k -j4 HOSTPYTHON=%s HOSTPGEN=%s CROSS_COMPILE=arm-eabi- CROSS_COMPILE_TARGET=yes' % (HOSTPYTHON, HOSTPGEN)








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Gabriel.

2012/1/23 Anders Feder


To complete my previous answer as the email went out before intended (it happens!)...don't use the last line (env['MAKE']), and try running configure with:


./configure --host=arm-eabi --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu  --with-sysroot=[LOCATION OF THE NDK]/platforms/android-5/arch-arm 


Let us know if it works!

--
Gabriel.

Thanks a lot. It compiled fine, except I had to configure with --host=arm-eabi-linux and --disable-joystick.

Anders Feder

On 23-01-2012 17:56, Gabriel Jacobo wrote: