Android

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Building from source

Requirements

• Android NDK

Initial setup

First, download the latest Android NDK and extract it, e.g. in $HOME/android.

$ cd $HOME
$ mkdir android
$ cd android
$ wget http://dl.google.com/android/ndk/android-ndk-r8d-linux-x86.tar.bz2
$ tar xfvj android-ndk-r8d-linux-x86.tar.bz2
$ cd android-ndk-r8d

Now, create a toolchain installation that can be used for cross-compiling for Android (adapt --platform and --arch as needed):

$ ./build/tools/make-standalone-toolchain.sh --platform=android-9 --install-dir=$HOME/android/android-arm-toolchain --arch=arm

You now have a working toolchain and build environment in $HOME/android/android-arm-toolchain.

Now prepend the toolchain's bin directory to your $PATH:

$ export PATH=$HOME/android/android-arm-toolchain/bin:$PATH

We can now cross-compile packages for Android. Most autotools-using packages will usually just need a ./configure --host=arm-linux-androideabi, the rest is pretty straight-forward.

libzip

$ wget http://www.nih.at/libzip/libzip-0.10.1.tar.gz
$ tar xfvz libzip-0.10.1.tar.gz
$ cd libzip-0.10.1
$ autoreconf -i -f
$ ./configure --host=arm-linux-androideabi --prefix=$HOME/sr_android && make && make install

libsigrok

In a temporary build directory we can now build (the install directory will be $HOME/sr_android):

$ git clone git://sigrok.org/libsigrok
$ cd libsigrok
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure --host=arm-linux-androideabi --prefix=$HOME/sr_android && make && make install