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

[Ghislain PUTOIS]

Pieter,

Good suggestion,

I've just put my source package on
http://www.zeromq.org/distro:android . It contains my source tree for
building dynamic libraries for uuid and (not too old) trunk zmq.
Most of my comments are in the create.sh script.

Don't hesitate to update it with more comments.

-- 
Ghislain

Le jeudi 11 novembre 2010 à 16:49 +0100, Pieter Hintjens a écrit :
> Ghislain,
> 
> I think it's very exciting that 0MQ runs on Android, with these
> patches.  It would be great if you could create a wiki page on
> www.zeromq.org/community, e.g. in http://www.zeromq.org/distro:_start,
> for Android.  This way people can find your patch more easily.
> 
> -Pieter
> 
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:51 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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