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I am trying to understand what a standalone toolchain means. Following are my findings. A toolchain which is ready to use with all the configuration that is the system headers and libraries in the correct path . For Android it will also have the API headers in the path where the toolchain can look it up. Why the term "standalone"? This probably will be different that the regular toolchain in the sense that the R T will need to be configured and made ready for android use withe sysroot and libc header paths given etc. Please comment .
Hmm, I was compiling for android and one process was running a script called make-standalone-toolchain.sh a standalone toolchain is created .I was going through this script to understand what this is doing. Not really good at shell scripting. But made out certain things. ""Generate a customized Android toolchain installation that includes a working sysroot. The result is something that can more easily be used as a standalone cross-compiler, e.g. to run configure and make scripts." --toolchain arch ndk-dir package-dir system platform variables are set Compute source sysroot SRC_SYSROOT="$NDK_DIR/platforms/$PLATFORM arch-$ARCH" Copying sysroot headers and libraries... libstdc++ headers and libraries... prebuilt binaries.all into a temporary folder then a copying from Tmp dir to install dir creating a tar ie a package file to add the tmpdir wanted to know what exactly is happening here or a link or suggestion where to look.but ofcourse dont want to read very elaborate manuals. ~
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The standalone toolchain includes a C++ Standard Template Library (STL) implementation. Use -static-libstdc++ to get the static library version of libc++. Doing so ensures that all required C++ STL code is included into your final binary.
Code written in C/C++ can be compiled to ARM, or x86 native code (or their 64-bit variants) using the Android Native Development Kit (NDK). The NDK uses the Clang compiler to compile C/C++. GCC was included until NDK r17, but removed in r18 in 2018.
The Native Development Kit (NDK) is a set of tools that allows you to use C and C++ code with Android, and provides platform libraries you can use to manage native activities and access physical device components, such as sensors and touch input.
This blog posting may answer your question:
http://clseto.mysinablog.com/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=3480794
There is a recommended way to build native C/C++ program on Android: List your source files in a script (Android.mk) and run 'ndk-build'. It may not be a problem if you are writing new programs but if you already have a working build script (like those open source softwares) which can build you program nicely on Linux, it would be a headache to migrate your script to Android.mk. All you need in this situation is a C/C++ cross compiler and then replace the variables in your script (such as CC, CXX, AR, AS, RANLIB, ...) to something like 'arm-linux-androideabi-gcc', 'arm-linux-androideabi-g++', ...
Fortunatley, inside the 'Android NDK Dev Guide', there is a section 'Standalone Toolchain' which just describes what we need....
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