Summary

I continued to work on toolchains for -android and -androideabi targets in the past week. The following articles summarize the work done:

• Building a toolchain for aarch64-linux-android describes how to build a toolchain for target aarch64-linux-android and compile dynamically linked executables that run on unmodified Android platform.
• Bootstrap aarch64-linux-android …

Preface

To build the Android Platform, we need a toolchain that can produce executables that link correctly against Android's libc, Bionic. To achieve this, a toolchain targeting aarch64-linux-android (and arm-linux-androideabi) is needed. This article aims to provide a step-by-step guide for reproducing the desired toolchain on all architecture that GCC …

Summary

This week is mainly about decoupling toolchain from Android Build System so as to enable a local build of Android on the phone itself. Toolchains for the following programming languages are needed throughout the entire build:

• C/C++ (Android Platform)
• Java (Android Platform, apps)
• Go (build system, i.e …

Preface

Compiling is the main source of time consumption on a Gentoo system, and Portage-powered Android is of no exception. Gentoo packages can leverage Distcc to significantly speed up builds on slow machines with the aid of a powerful machine. For utilization in the Portage-powered Android project, we need to …

Summary

This is my first week back on GSoC from the final exams, and, according to the proposal, the second part of the project should get started in this week. This week's work sums up into the following two articles:

• Integrating Android kernel source into Portage Introduces how the three …