Hi, On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:52:22PM +0200, Arne Schwabe wrote: > Am 11.05.12 20:56, schrieb Gert Doering: > > Changing the build environment to build a shared library out of openvpn > > is something I do not fully understand yet, though - and don't view > > a particular useful goal right now. > The shared library is not used as real shared library. I build > libopenvpn as complete library and then build a miniature executable > that calls the main method of the shared library and therefore exactly > behaves like openvpn as executable. > > The reason for this is that libraries are managed by the android package > system. For executables I have to carry them as data files and write > them to a cache partition. By putting the main code into the library I > can minimise the amount of data that is written twice to the /data > parition on Android.
I'm still not sure I fully understand what Android is doing there - but
I don't need to :-) - so that explanation is good enough for me.
gert
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