[BRLTTY] building brlapi for Android (ARM processor)

[Shiri Azenkot]

If you guys think this is too complicated, an alternative approach is to use
the Android NDK (as I mentioned in my first email in this thread). This
would require writing a simple make file, Android.mk, that tells the system
what shared and/or static libraries to build, which source file to use for
each library, etc. We can then write a java application using the java
bindings that will run on Android and call methods in the native brltty
libraries.

Of course, as Dave pointed out earlier, the Android.mk file would have to be
updated when adding/deleting/renaming files in brltty.

What do you think?

shiri

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> wrote:

> [quoted lines by Shiri Azenkot on 2010/04/23 at 11:54 -0700]
>
> >I don't have a thorough understanding of autoconf and cross-compiling, so
> >I'm not entirely clear on the inner workings of all this...
>
> The way our configure script is written, it indeed does complain if it
> encounters a new platform. It's done this way to force us to make sure that
> certain options are explicitly specified. This may be an over-cautious way
> to
> have done it, but it forces us to properly research new platforms. I guess
> I'll
> have to install the arm-eabi build environment and fill in the missing
> bits.
>
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