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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> |