[cmake-developers] Android platform file

Stephen Kelly steveire at gmail.com
Tue Mar 4 11:38:00 EST 2014


Brad King wrote:

> On 03/04/2014 11:08 AM, Stephen Kelly wrote:
>> The resolution of
>> 
>>  http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=14602
>> 
>> is that all projects which wish to build libraries for Android must
>> create their own Platform/Android.cmake file.
>> 
>> The alternative is to ship such a file with cmake and to set
>> CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME to Android, which correctly sets the
>> CMAKE_SHARED_LIBRARY_SONAME_C_FLAG.
>> 
>> I don't understand why the former was chosen. Why not the latter?
> 
> No, the resolution was to create a local Platform/Linux.cmake:

Ok. I wrote that wrong. 

The name of the file(s) is not really the point I was raising though. The 
point is that all projects must take the same or similar action in order to 
build shared libraries on Android.

> If the CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME is Android then all the Platform/Linux-*.cmake
> files need to have Platform/Android-*.cmake forwarding files created.

Any reason not to prefer this?

Thanks,

Steve.





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