[zeromq-dev] [PATCH] Preliminary Android support for trunk ZeroMQ

[Wolfgang Richter]

ZMQ on Android is important for me.

Thanks for submitting the patch.

I'll try and take a look at it in the near future for a distributed system we're extending to mobile devices.

--
Wolf

On Nov 11, 2010, at 4:51 AM, Ghislain PUTOIS <ghpu at infonie.fr> wrote:

> On lun., 2010-11-08 at 12:09 +0100, Martin Lucina wrote:
>> sustrik at 250bpm.com said:
>>> Mato,
>>>> Indeed, that would be my greatest concern. We can't easily accept patches
>>>> which add "Yet another build system", it creates too much of a maintenance
>>>> overhead.
>>>> 
>>> I'va asked Ghislain and the reason is that he's not familiar with 
>>> autotools. Still, the patch is perfectly valid.
>>> 
>>> So the only question is how does autotools behave on Android. Would it 
>>> define ZMQ_HAVE_ANDROID? Or does it treat Android as a Linux flavour?
>> 
>> No idea here, sorry.
> 
> Android is mostly a Linux flavour, which unfortunately still requires a
> non standard toolchain, called the NDK. This toolchain defines the
> ANDROID variable, so I hadn't proposed a ZMQ_HAVE_ANDROID variable.
> 
> The only difference I have found with a standard linux platform is in
> the incomplete support of the POSIX functions for optimizations, so I
> commented them out in my proposed patch.
> 
> The specific toolchain also requires a specific directory structure.
> Therefore, I don't think the specific support for a complete build of an
> Android flavour should be integrated in the zmq trunk. However, it would
> be nice to have the trunk modified so that the source files could be
> directly copied into a NDK project.
> 
> I just submitted my attempts so that other people know how I got it
> working on an Android phone, if they want ot use zmq for their own
> project. 
> 
> -- 
> Ghislain
> 
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