1 Android NDK x86 (a.k.a. IA-32) instruction set support 2 === 3 4 Introduction: 5 ------------- 6 7 Android NDK r6 added support for the '`x86`' ABI, that allows native code to 8 run on Android-based devices running on CPUs supporting the IA-32 instruction 9 set. 10 11 The Android x86 ABI itself is fully specified in docs/CPU-ARCH-ABIS.html. 12 13 Overview: 14 --------- 15 16 Generating x86 machine code is simple: just add 'x86' to your APP_ABI 17 definition in your Application.mk file, for example: 18 19 APP_ABI := armeabi armeabi-v7a x86 20 21 Alternatively, since NDK r7, you can use: 22 23 APP_ABI := all 24 25 will generate machine code for all supported ABIs with this NDK. Doing so 26 will ensure that your application package contains libraries for all target 27 ABIs. Note that this has an impact on package size, since each ABI will 28 correspond to its own set of native libraries built from the same sources. 29 30 The default ABI is still '`armeabi`', if unspecified in your project. 31 32 As you would expect, generated libraries will go into `$PROJECT/libs/x86/`, and 33 will be embedded into your .apk under `/lib/x86/`. 34 35 And just like other ABIs, the Android package manager will extract these 36 libraries on a *compatible* x86-based device automatically at install time, 37 to put them under <dataPath>/lib, where <dataPath> is the 38 application's private data directory. 39 40 Similarly, the Google Play server is capable of filtering applications 41 based on the native libraries they embed and your device's target CPU. 42 43 Debugging with ndk-gdb should work exactly as described under docs/NDK-GDB.html. 44 45 Standalone-toolchain: 46 --------------------- 47 48 It is possible to use the x86 toolchain with NDK r6 in stand-alone mode. 49 See docs/STANDALONE-TOOLCHAIN.html for more details. Briefly speaking, 50 it is now possible to run: 51 52 $NDK/build/tools/make-standalone-toolchain.sh --arch=x86 --install-dir=<path> 53 54 The toolchain binaries have the `i686-linux-android- prefix`. 55 56 57 Compatibility: 58 -------------- 59 60 The minimal native API level provided by official Android x86 platform builds 61 is 9, which corresponds to all the native APIs provided by Android 2.3, i.e. 62 Gingerbread (note also that no new native APIs were introduced by Honeycomb). 63 64 You won't have to change anything to your project files if you target an older 65 API level: the NDK build script will automatically select the right set of 66 native platform headers/libraries for you. 67
