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STLport for Android

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     This feature is currently in beta. In case of issue
     please contact the android-ndk support forum or
     file bugs at http://b.android.com

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This directory contains a port of STLport for Android, which provides
a simple STL implementation. Note that it currently does not support
C++ exceptions and RTTI. Support for wchar_t and locales is probably buggy.

You can either use it as a static or shared library.

1/ The static library is recommended if you will only produce
   one shared library for your project. All necessary STLport functions
   will be added to it. This option should also generate smaller
   overall binaries.

2/ The shared library, is recommended if you want to produce
   several shared libraries in your project, because it avoids copying the
   same STLport functions to each one of them, and having different instances
   of the same global variables (which can easily conflict or result in
   undefined behaviour).

To use the *static* library, do the following:

  a. Add 'stlport_static' to your module's LOCAL_STATIC_LIBRARIES
     variable.

  b. At the end of your Android.mk, import the module with:

        $(call import-module,android/stlport)


To use the *shared* library, do the following:

  a. Add 'stlport_shared' to your module's LOCAL_SHARED_LIBRARIES
     variable.

  b. At the end of your Android.mk, import them module with
     the same line described above for the static case.

Note that you will need, in your application, to explicitely load
the 'stlport_shared' library before any library that depends on it.
For example:

    static {
        System.loadLibrary("stlport_shared");
        System.loadLibrary("foo");
        System.loadLibrary("bar");
    }

If both libfoo.so and libbar.so depend on STLport.

You can build the STLport unit test program by doing the following:

  cd $NDK/sources/android/stlport/test
  $NDK/ndk-build

This generates a standalone executable under libs/armeabi/test_stlport.
Note that it must be run in a writable directory (it needs to write then
read a few files). Here's an example on how to run it:

  adb push libs/armeabi/test_stlport /data/local/
  adb shell chmod 755 /data/local/test_stlport
  adb shell 'cd /data/local; test_stlport'

Note that a few unit tests fail at the moment, they should hopefully
fixed in a later release of this library.

VERSION INFORMATION: This module is based on STLport version 5.x.y (TODO)