Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Openvpn for Android 4.0 Changeset

[Gert D. <ge...@gr...>]

Hi,

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:52:22PM +0200, Arne Schwabe wrote:
> Am 11.05.12 20:56, schrieb Gert Doering:
> > Changing the build environment to build a shared library out of openvpn
> > is something I do not fully understand yet, though - and don't view
> > a particular useful goal right now.
> The shared library is not used as real shared library. I build
> libopenvpn as complete library and then build a miniature executable
> that calls the main method of the shared library and therefore exactly
> behaves like openvpn as executable.
> 
> The reason for this is that libraries are managed by the android package
> system. For executables I have to carry them as data files and write
> them to a cache partition. By putting the main  code into the library I
> can minimise the amount of data that is written twice to the /data
> parition on Android.

I'm still not sure I fully understand what Android is doing there - but
I don't need to :-) - so that explanation is good enough for me.

gert
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