f9af3ced1c Android: add all arch support (Block Mechanic)
d419ca7e32 depends: export dynamic JNI symbols from static qtforandroid.a (Igor Cota)
ed30684d03 Qt: patch androidjnimain.cpp to make sure JNI is initialised when statically compiled (Igor Cota)
e4c319e8a1 builds: remove superfluous config_opts_aarch64_android (Igor Cota)
24ffef0c27 Patch libevent when building for Android (fix arc4random_addrandom) (Igor Cota)
f1e40b3e71 Update bitcoin_qt.m4 (BlockMechanic)
b4057d8261 Define TARGET_OS when host is android (Igor Cota)
80b475f159 Fix Android zlib cross compilation issue (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21396988/zlib-build-not-configuring-properly-with-cross-compiler-ignores-ar) (Igor Cota)
45f8219015 Add full Android build example command and instructions on getting SDK/NDK (Igor Cota)
b68f2a68c2 Add config opts and patch for aarch64_android build of Qt (Igor Cota)
9c4cb0166e Add ranlib to android.mk hosts file (fix OSX Android NDK build) (Igor Cota)
c2a749c9c1 Add example Android host-platform-triplet and options (Igor Cota)
0b0cff3c61 Add support for building Android dependencies (Igor Cota)
Pull request description:
This allows one to build the dependencies with the Android SDK and goes towards fixing #11844. It has been tested to work with:
`make HOST=aarch64-linux-android ANDROID_API_LEVEL=28 ANDROID_TOOLCHAIN_BIN=/home/user/Android/Sdk/ndk-bundle/toolchains/llvm/prebuilt/linux-x86_64/bin NO_QT=1 NO_WALLET=1`
ACKs for top commit:
Sjors:
ACK f9af3ce. I'm OK with merging and then improving later.
Tree-SHA512: cb805115ebe5c9e33db2bf3eab8628808fe3f50052053d8877d8b8e4406d6fea1ed9e5c4dff85d777fb99c81be6ffb9d95a0e6d32344e728e5e0da6c653e2ce7
The ancient "darwin-4.9.1" profile has long been used to match against
clang, which prior to version 9, reported 4.9.1 as its version when
invoking "clang++ -dumpversion". Presumably this was a historical
compatibility quirk related to Apple's switch from gcc to clang.
This was "fixed" in clang 9.0, so that -dumpversion reports the real
version. Unfortunately that had the side-effect of breaking the
(brittle) boost compiler detection.
Move to the seemingly more-correct "clang-darwin" profile, which passes
the checks and builds correctly.
Also switch to using ar rather than libtool for archiving, as it's what
the clang-darwin profile expects to be using.
Note that because this is using a different profile, some of the final
command-line arguments end up changing. The changes look sane at a
glance.
Boost assumes variadic templates are always available in GCC 4.4+, but
they aren't since we don't build with -std=c++11.
This applies the patch that fixed the issue in boost 1.57:
eec8085549
See also: https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/10500
tl;dr: This solves boost visibility problems for default/release build configs
on non-Linux platforms.
When Bitcoin builds against boost's header-only classes, it ends up with
objects containing symbols that the upstream boost libs also have. Since
Bitcoin builds by default with hidden symbol visibility, it can end up trying
to link against a copy of the same symbols with default visibility.
This is not a problem on Linux because 3rd party static libs are un-exported
by default (--exclude-libs,ALL), but that is not available for MinGW and OSX.
Those platforms (and maybe others?) end up confused about which version to use.
The OSX linker spews hundreds of: "ld: warning: direct access in <foo> to
global weak symbol guard variable for <bar> means the weak symbol cannot be
overridden at runtime. This was likely caused by different translation units
being compiled with different visibility settings."
MinGW's linker complains similarly.
Since the default symbol visibility for Bitcoin is hidden and releases are
built that way as well, build Boost with hidden visibility. Linux builds Boost
this way also, but only for the sake of continuity.
This means that the linker confusion logic is reversed, so the problem will
will now be encountered if Bitcoin is built with --disable-reduce-exports, but
that's better than the current situation.
Wladimir J. van der Laan