Re: Compiling arm-linux-androideabi-4.4.3 From Source

[Jonathan Matthew Beck]

I see this is an old post, but I am having the same error today.

I am using Android Eclipse ADT on Windows 8.1 I have installed both Cygwin and MinGW. I have installed the SDK, NDK and Cocos2d-x library.

My question is that my Cocos2d-x project is expecting this toolchain library in the NDK:

ndk\toolchains\arm-linux-androideabi-4.4.3\prebuilt\darwin-x86\lib\gcc\arm-linux-androideabi\4.4.3\include

I browse to the ndk\toolchains folder and I see several other versions:

arm-linux-androideabi-4.6
arm-linux-androideabi-4.8
arm-linux-androideabi-clang3.3

And a few other versions, but not the 4.4.3 version.

My question is then, should I

1) With Cygwin or MinGW compile "arm-linux-androideabi-4.4.3" and how to do this.  Please be precise in your explanation.

• or -

2) With some setting in ADT should I change the version to the newest one "arm-linux-androideabi-4.8". Please direct me to this setting if this is the correct choice.

Thanks in advance for your help!

[Akshat Saha]

Hi,

I am trying to compile arm-linux-androideabi-4.4.3 toolchain from android source.

I compiled ndk for the same purpose form source using :

$ make ndk

But the mentioned toolchain is not built. Can anyone help or guide me, on how to proceed.

Thanks in Advance

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Akshat 

[Akshat Saha]

[David Turner]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Akshat Saha <akshat....@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I am trying to compile arm-linux-androideabi-4.4.3 toolchain from android source.

I compiled ndk for the same purpose form source using :

$ make ndk

this will not work.

 

But the mentioned toolchain is not built. Can anyone help or guide me, on how to proceed.

Read docs/DEVELOPMENT.html and build/tools/DEV-SCRIPTS-USAGE.TXT, in a nutshell:

build/tools/download-toolchain-sources.sh /tmp/ndk-$USER/src

build/tools/build-gcc.sh /tmp/ndk-$USER/src $(pwd) arm-linux-androideabi-4.4.3

should be enough to rebuild the toolchain for your host platform (must be Linux or OS X). For the Windows binaries, you must be on Linux and use the --mingw option when calling build-gcc.sh (also have the mingw32 cross-toolchain installed).

Hope this helps

 

Thanks in Advance

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Akshat 

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[Manu]

For the Windows binaries, you must be on Linux and use the --mingw option when calling build-gcc.sh (also have the mingw32 cross-toolchain installed).

>_<

 Why does google hate windows? :(

[David Turner]

I don't hate Windows, I hate Cygwin. And it took about 4 hours to rebuild the toolchain under Cygwin, it takes less than 11 minutes on my Linux machine. 

[mingw android]

GCC cross compilers don't build correctly on Windows out of the box and the patches to make it do so are probably a bit too intrusive for the FSF's liking. I've made patches for this if you're interested, though it's not for the faint of heart...

You need MinGW, and to make a change to one of it's headers, and a few other tools too. But if you really want to go there then I can help you.

[mingw android]

You must have an absolute beast of a linux machine David!

[Akshat Saha]

Thanks David,

I am getting the following error, while executing :

COMMAND:

$ build/tools/download-toolchain-sources.sh ${DIR}

ERROR LOG:

Using git clone prefix: git://android.git.kernel.org/toolchain

downloading sources for toolchain/binutils

ERROR: Could not clone git://android.git.kernel.org/toolchain/binutils.git ?

Akshat 

[Akshat Saha]

I am using 64-bit Ubuntu 10.10 based host machine.

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Akshat 

[David Turner]

You should use the version of the script that comes with NDK r7, it has been updated to talk to the newest source servers.

Otherwise, use --git-base=https://android.googlesource.com