Build a library without complete source

[Gary Barnes]

I am attempting to develop a JNI library for ICS, in which one of the needed libraries will be libnativehelper, however it does not exist as a prebuilt. Therefore I will need to build the required libraries, however do to a lack of network stability I have been unable to download the entire branch of ics-mr1-release via 'repo sync' or git clone -b  ics-mr1-release  https://android.googlesource.com/platform/name. 

So... how can I either download the remaining packages (framework/base & prebuilts) or just built the required libs?

[trevd]

You'll have a hell of a job pulling that one off as libnativehelper wasn't introduced until jellybean https://android.googlesource.com/platform/libnativehelper/+refs . Which probably also explains why it doesn't exist as a prebuilt.

Obviously the functionality you require is going to be implemented elsewhere ( hopefully ) . I can highly recommend http://androidxref.com/ if you need to do some code hunting.

To answer your original question. I'd try and grab the bare minimum required by hacking editing the .repo/manifest.xml to remove all the unnecessary fluff. Also there is a mirror of the AOSP on github, github allows you to download archives ( zips ) of a single branch which is always an option should you find yourself needed to take a more piecemeal approach.

[Gary Barnes]

Trevd - thanks for the info on the mirrors.

Also just an FYI libnativehelper has existed since the very early days of 1.x, it had been located under dalvik.

[Steve Jones]

 Indeed it does ... That's what I get fo trying to be smart lol :) 

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