How do I tell my android Java project where the *.so files are so it can package them into the APK for dynamic loading when I call System.loadlibrary() on the SO files?
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 6:59 PM, Eric Wing <ewmail...@gmail.com> wrote: > So I have 4 examples I actually tried to document. > These all use my fork/derivative of the Android-CMake toolchain, which > I believe comes from OpenCV. (It had grown stale with later NDKs and I > hit problems). All of these rely heavily on the external NDK module > system (NDK_MODULE_PATH). > > The first and easiest (most self contained) is: > https://bitbucket.org/ewing/hello-android-almixer > This one invokes ant via shell scripts outside CMake. > > I then recently got SDL building with CMake using the same techniques. > https://bitbucket.org/ewing/sdl_android_cleanup > This one doesn't invoke ant because it builds only a library. There > was actually an intermediate project I helped build after ALmixer that > this also drew from, JavaScriptCore, and I documented my procedure > here: > https://github.com/appcelerator/hyperloop/wiki/Building-JavaScriptCore-for-Android > > > Once you have SDL built, and you set your NDK_MODULE_PATH directly, I > have an Ant example and Gradle example. The ant one is just like > Hello-Android-ALmixer. > https://bitbucket.org/ewing/helloandroidsdl-ant > https://bitbucket.org/ewing/helloandroidsdl-gradle > > The Gradle one is a lot of hacks. Google is ditching Ant/Eclipse for > Gradle/IntelliJ, but their NDK support is even worse in the latter > right now. > > Again, once you leave the NDK, all these things live outside CMake. I > think it would be interesting to make CMake handle all of this, but I > can't visualize it yet. But I hope others might be able to build on my > work, like how I've built on Android-CMake. > > An aside, I noticed Gradle is painfully slow. Depending on how one > does CMake integration, I'm not sure I want it. Just to invoke it and > for it to figure out no real work needs to be done is measured in > seconds for me. > > > Thanks, > Eric > > > > On 5/6/14, J Decker <d3c...@gmail.com> wrote: >> This is a page on building to android; mostly it's about my library, but >> names can be replaced where required >> https://code.google.com/p/c-system-abstraction-component-gui/wiki/BuildingForAndroid >> >> I went wit the separate cmake projects because I end up with multiple >> android projects from the same libraries; but really it could be appended >> all-together >> >> >> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Robert Dailey >> <rcdailey.li...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Well to be clear, the NDK libraries are compiled in eclipse after I >>> generate eclipse makefiles in CMake. Ideally, I want the CMake script >>> to also configure "ant" execution so that it builds java and links in >>> the NDK libraries. You say "just use the libraries", but I'm not sure >>> what this looks like as far as CMake script is concerned. >>> >>> Also I think we're using the android glue stuff in our existing >>> project, but I'm not really sure what android glue is or if it is >>> relevant to the CMake setup. >>> >>> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 2:45 PM, J Decker <d3c...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > If you've built the sources into libs, you can just use the lib; my >>> sources >>> > are much too complex of a tree for ndk to support to build as sources.. >>> > >>> > The java sources are compiled at the 'ant <debug/release' step... there >>> is a >>> > step before that I do that is 'android.bat update project --target >>> > "android-14" --path' which makes a few other files from the build.xml. >>> > >>> > >>> > On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Robert Dailey >>> > <rcdailey.li...@gmail.com> >>> > wrote: >>> >> >>> >> There is also the question of how to handle the NDK sources and >>> >> integrate them into the eclipse workspace. For example, I believe NDK >>> >> sources must be under the 'jni' directory, but they won't be >>> >> structured that way in the source tree. So I'm not sure if the jni >>> >> directory is required. I realize there's some reference material out >>> >> there but I'm not sure what to pay attention to. Would be nice to get >>> >> some overview steps that I can read along with the reference material >>> >> so I know the order in which to look at things, essentially. >>> >> >>> >> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Bill Hoffman >>> >> <bill.hoff...@kitware.com >>> > >>> >> wrote: >>> >> > You can look at what we did for VES: >>> >> > http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/642 >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> > -Bill >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> > -- >>> >> > >>> >> > Powered by www.kitware.com >>> >> > >>> >> > Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: >>> >> > http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ >>> >> > >>> >> > Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. 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