Hi All, We need to port the Android framework to a UNIX-clone OS. We figured out a few things; but need to confirm some of our doubts!
1. The Bionic library comes along with a set of cleaned, stripped headers. As these are already included in the source itself, these headers can be effectively called as "platform independent" headers. If we can take the entire Bionic source code to the other OS, we believe that we can still use these headers intact; without having the need to worry about the dependency of the other OS' headers. 2. In order to compile the Bionic on the host OS (non-Linux), we will still need to recompile the android tool chain according to the host OS.( We can specify the Bionic compilation with the option of excluding headers, --without-headers; or can we not??) Apart from the matter of replacing systems calls, driver specific IOCTL calls in the non Linux OS, the above two steps should virtually guarantee the usage of Bionic library on the other OS. Eagerly waiting for comments, guidelines for the same!!! Thanks, Manjunatha Srinivasan N --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
