Re: [Firebird-devel] Building Firebird for Android

[Alex P. <pes...@ma...>]

 On 07/24/12 17:25, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:
> On 24/07/2012 10:15, Alex Peshkoff wrote:
>>> The problem is that some things (specially unicode_util) was added to
>>> common, but in fact, it's a piece needed only in engine and intl libraries.
>>>
>> Do you want to say that a member of static library, not used to resolve
>> symbols during link, will anyway cause errors when it references
>> non-existent library? I've always thought that ld is not so foolish.
>>
>>
> No, as we saw, it is working in trunk. 

Never tried to build/run on a box without ICU :)

> It's not the greatest design, but...
>

Do you think that creating separate library for intl-related things is
better? I'm not sure...
Any better suggestion? I can rework posix build schema easily.

> As I pointed it out, Android SDK/NDK has no ICU library and then our
> client (which technically does not need ICU) does not build without
> first manually build/install ICU. Weird.
>

Taking into an account that our final aim is to build full firebird for
android, not _too_ weird.
But returning to full build. ICU is always present on android devices.
Here is short abstract from google docs:

> Locale
> data                                                                                                                                                 
>  
>                                                                                                                                                             
>  
>    Note that locale data comes solely from ICU. User-supplied locale
>    service providers (using the java.text.spi or java.util.spi mechanisms)
>    are not supported.
>
>    Here are the versions of ICU (and the corresponding CLDR and Unicode
>    versions) used in various Android releases:
>    cupcake/donut/eclair  ICU 3.8 [318]CLDR 1.5 [319]Unicode 5.0
>    froyo                 ICU 4.2 [320]CLDR 1.7 [321]Unicode 5.1
>    gingerbread/honeycomb ICU 4.4 [322]CLDR 1.8 [323]Unicode 5.2
>    ice cream sandwich    ICU 4.6 [324]CLDR 1.9 [325]Unicode 6.0
>    jelly bean            ICU 4.8 [326]CLDR 2.0 [327]Unicode 6.0

It's clear why it's not present in official API - ICU did not provide
backward compatibility in new versions. But our trunk can work with any
version! I.e. the only problem I see particularly for android port - is
how to better provide correct platform.h for android on arm?