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Update README.android to mention native builds with Termux #17006

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p5pRT opened this issue May 20, 2019 · 4 comments
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Update README.android to mention native builds with Termux #17006

p5pRT opened this issue May 20, 2019 · 4 comments

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p5pRT commented May 20, 2019

Migrated from rt.perl.org#134118 (status was 'new')

Searchable as RT134118$

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p5pRT commented May 20, 2019

From rich@hyphen-dash-hyphen.info

Attached is a straightforward documentation patch.

Please could it be added once blead is thawed.

Thanks,
Richard

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p5pRT commented May 20, 2019

From rich@hyphen-dash-hyphen.info

0001-Mention-Termux-in-README.android.patch
From 2d710bbfd063bc37ade1c16e6159b0cd3e5b7241 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard Leach <rich+perl@hyphen-dash-hyphen.info>
Date: Mon, 20 May 2019 01:37:04 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Mention Termux in README.android

---
 README.android | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.android b/README.android
index defcd95999..c9be849cb3 100644
--- a/README.android
+++ b/README.android
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ perlandroid - Perl under Android

 =head1 SYNOPSIS

-The first portions of this documents contains instructions
+The first portions of this document contains instructions
 to cross-compile Perl for Android 2.0 and later, using the
-binaries provided by Google.  The latter portion describes how to build
+binaries provided by Google.  The latter portions describe how to build
 perl native using one of the toolchains available on the Play Store.

 =head1 DESCRIPTION
@@ -181,10 +181,13 @@ itself off once, and then back on again.
 =head1 Native Builds

 While Google doesn't provide a native toolchain for Android,
-you can still get one from the Play Store; for example, there's the CCTools
-app which you can get for free.
-Keep in mind that you want a full
-toolchain; some apps tend to default to installing only a barebones
+you can still get one from the Play Store.
+
+=head2 CCTools
+
+You may be able to get the CCTools app, which is free.
+Keep in mind that you want a full toolchain;
+some apps tend to default to installing only a barebones
 version without some important utilities, like ar or nm.

 Once you have the toolchain set up properly, the only
@@ -197,6 +200,17 @@ compiling perl is little more than:
  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$SYSROOT/lib:`pwd`:`pwd`/lib:`pwd`/lib/auto:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
  sh Configure -des -Dsysroot=$SYSROOT -Alibpth="/system/lib /vendor/lib"

+=head2 Termux
+
+L<Termux|https://termux.com/> provides an Android terminal emulator and Linux environment.
+It comes with a cross-compiled perl already installed.
+
+Natively compiling perl 5.30 or later should be as straightforward as:
+
+ sh Configure -des -Alibpth="/system/lib /vendor/lib"
+
+This certainly works on Android 8.1 (Oreo) at least...
+
 =head1 AUTHOR

 Brian Fraser <fraserbn@gmail.com>
--
2.21.0

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I'd forgotten that this doc patch was outstanding. Please could it be committed?

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Thanks, applied as
908c327

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