We talked a bit about standalone NDKs when we worked on adding support for new android CPU architectures here: https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/11921#issuecomment-299052122
The benefit of using a standalone NDK is that we have to configure less CXX flags in Servo. But the main concerns are that is another step and failure point for people building for Android. Also we have to create different standalone NDKs for each architecture: armv7, arm64, x86, etc which can increase build sizes and steps for the user. IMO is better that we assume the CXX flags set up complexity and only make the users to set up the PATH to the default android-ndk folder. At least that's the usual way to compile android libraries. In fact, I had never heard of standalone NDKs after a lot of time working & compiling libs for Android until I worked on that Servo integration. On 7 March 2018 at 06:42, Matt Brubeck <mbrub...@mozilla.com> wrote: > We used to use a standalone toolchain: > https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Building-for-Android/ > 16f371c68d7da393d178646dcb18dac2c2ea8826 > > but this changed back in 2016; I'm not clear on the exact reasons: > https://github.com/servo/servo/pull/13945 > > On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 4:46 PM, Josh Bowman-Matthews < > j...@joshmatthews.net> > wrote: > > > I'm trying to update our NDK from 12b to a more modern 16b. Since the > > default NDK installation is so convoluted in terms of include/lib/bin > > directories, I'm giving the standalone SDK a shot and it appears to be > much > > more straightforward to integrate into the build. Is there any reason we > > haven't required the use of standalone SDKs before? > > > > Cheers, > > Josh > > _______________________________________________ > > dev-servo mailing list > > dev-servo@lists.mozilla.org > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-servo > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-servo mailing list > dev-servo@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-servo > _______________________________________________ dev-servo mailing list dev-servo@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-servo
