Re: [Firebird-devel] Building firebird for Android

[Damyan I. <dm...@de...>]

-=| J-L M, 19.07.2012 10:57:53 +0200 |=-
> We are trying to compile Firebird 2.1
> for Android in order to use the embedded version in our mobile device
> of our software.
> But
> for the moment it seems impossible for some reasons : Android
> uses his own Libc called Bionic. And the problem is that there is a
> lot of missing features in. There is no implementation of the POSIX
> IPC or System V IPC inside, Android drop this to avoid
> denial-of-service. So, use of
> semaphore, shared memory, etc,  is not possible.

Perhaps you can try 2.5? It no longer uses semaphores.

Not sure about the availability of pthread mutexes in bionic, though.