Compiling native programs for Android

There is an excellent tutorial by Nirnimesh on how to compile native programs for Android here http://android-tricks.blogspot.com/2009/02/hello-world-c-program-on-using-android.html

Unfortunately things have changed a bit since last year when this post was written. Andy’s agcc script doesn’t work with the most recent Google NDK release 4B.

I have changed the script a little bit to address new path changes. The new script is available here http://android-cruft.googlecode.com/files/agcc-0.2.tgz.

Make sure to add this to your path

$HOME/AndroidNDK/build/prebuilt/linux-x86/arm-eabi-4.4.0/bin/

where AndroidNDK is your NDK installation directory.

Hope this works for you.

August 18, 2010 · Filed under android

5 Comments »

  1. Aleix Said,

    August 23, 2010 @ 9:23 pm

    Thanks!

  2. vlad Said,

    August 23, 2010 @ 9:28 pm

    No problemo.

    Actually, we have set-up a Google Code project with Jason Holt, check it out at http://code.google.com/p/android-cruft/.

    That’ is going to be a new home for the script and related hacks.

  3. amal Said,

    September 6, 2010 @ 9:38 am

    I cross compiled the latest NDK and trying to build a c++ program.
    I have modified your agcc script accordingly, but get linker errors.
    In function `main’:
    helloworld.cpp:(.text.main+0×38): undefined reference to `std::basic_ostream<char, std::char_traits >& std::operator<< <std::char_traits >(std::basic_ostream<char, std::char_traits >&, char const*)’
    helloworld.cpp:(.text.main+0×50): undefined reference to `std::basic_ostream<char, std::char_traits >::operator<<(std::basic_ostream<char, std::char_traits >& (*)(std::basic_ostream<char, std::char_traits >&))’
    helloworld.cpp:(.text.main+0×68): undefined reference to `std::cout’
    helloworld.cpp:(.text.main+0×70): undefined reference to `std::basic_ostream<char, std::char_traits >& std::endl<char, std::char_traits >(std::basic_ostream<char, std::char_traits >&)’
    /tmp/ccibnqFX.o: In function `__static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int, int)’:
    helloworld.cpp:(.text._Z41__static_initialization_and_destruction_0ii+0x5c): undefined reference to `std::ios_base::Init::Init()’
    /tmp/ccibnqFX.o: In function `__tcf_0′:
    helloworld.cpp:(.text.__tcf_0+0×28): undefined reference to `std::ios_base::Init::~Init()’
    collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

    Request help

  4. vlad Said,

    September 6, 2010 @ 9:45 am

    Looks, like you forgot to attach C++ library. I am not sure if Android actually has one. I’ll try to look into it later this week.

  5. Radu Said,

    November 18, 2010 @ 3:00 am

    Hi Vlad, excellent work! I;ve used the agcc (the old version) myself alot.

    However, this version requires PERL.
    I’ve created a script, for those that don’t want to install Perl, so here is another approach on using the Android NDK to compile Native C applications:
    http://www.pocketmagic.net/?p=1462

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