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1357 :: Build executable for Android with NDK

• mr_july (orginal) [2015-06-23T10:26:28+02:00] view original

  Hi!

  I'm trying to build small console app to be run on Android. Here is the code of regexp_test.nim

  
  import re
  const
    str = "key = value"
    pattern = r"\w+\s*=\s*\w+"
  
  echo str=~re(pattern)
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  the configuration regexp_test.nim.cfg

  
  arm.linux.gcc.path = "/home/user/workspace/android/android-ndk/android-ndk-r10e/toolchains/arm-linux-androideabi-4.8/prebuilt/linux-x86_64/bin"
  arm.linux.gcc.exe = "arm-linux-androideabi-gcc"
  arm.linux.gcc.linkerexe = "arm-linux-androideabi-gcc"
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  and the build script build.sh

  
  #!/bin/sh
  
  PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
  SYSROOT="$HOME/workspace/android/android-ndk/android-toolchain/sysroot"
  nim c --cpu:arm --os:linux --parallelBuild:1 --passC:--sysroot="$SYSROOT" --passL:--sysroot="$SYSROOT" regexp_test.nim
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  The program is built sucessfully, but if I try to execute it on Android, then I get the error message:

  
  could not load:  libpcre.so(.3|.1|)
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  How can I build nim programs, which require some standard libraries (e.g. pcre, curl etc.) to be run on Android?

  Thanks in advance! :-)

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• xyz32 (orginal) [2015-06-23T14:43:43+02:00] view original

  Can you ssh into your android device and see what version of the library it provides? And try to add that version into the nim compiler and see if it works (look inside here Nim/lib/wrappers/pcre.nim).

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• Varriount (orginal) [2015-06-25T04:25:55+02:00] view original

  The other alternative, since you seem to be just trying to compile an example in Nim for Android, is to choose another example (echo "Hello World" is always a good start).

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