[Firebird-devel] Building Firebird for Android

[JLM <so4...@ho...>]

Hello,

Thanks all for your answers.
I didn't know that it was possible to build client library for Android. 
It's for ARM ? How do buil that ?
Cross-compilation of Firebird runs with difficulty. Do you use a classic 
gcc cross-compiler of do you use the NDK toolset ?

Regards,
Jean-Louis Meuriot

On 19/07/2012 11:58, Alex Peshkoff wrote:
>   On 07/19/12 12:57, J-L M wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 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.
>
> NO - they just _say_ that Posix IPC was dropped to avoid DOS, actually
> Bionic is FreeBSD-based, and they never supported Posix IPC.
>
>>   So, use of
>> semaphore, shared memory, etc,  is not possible.
>
> Unfortunately yes.
>
>> We
>> have written a more complet document of this porterage which
>> describes the problems in detail.
>>
>
> Not needed - it's obvious :)
>
>>
>> Somebody
>> have already attempt to compile or to make an Android version of
>> Firebird ?
>
> Yes. We can now build client library for Android.
>
>> What
>> would be the good way to do that ?
>
> First of all - do not use old 2.1 version.
> Good idea is doing development in trunk, may be later backport to 2.5.
> In my future plans for Android port is to have our IPC implemented using
> Android binder.
>
>> Otherwise,
>> how to interest Firebird developpers to make this Android version ?
>
> Probably http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/how-to-become-a-sponsor/
>
>> (Maybe I can create a topic in the tracker )
>
> It exists http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-3885
> And tracker is bad place for discussing ports.
>
>
>
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