Re: [Firebird-devel] Building firebird for Android

[marius a. p. <ma...@gm...>]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Damyan Ivanov <dm...@de...> wrote:

> -=| 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.
>

The NDK appears to have support for pthread
mutexes<http://www.xgc.com/manuals/xgclib/x5257.html>

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11048260/does-android-support-pthread