dmikushin/libc-bionic

Script to build bionic libc

Android Bionic Libc Standalone build

This repository contains scripts to build standalone Bionic Libc - the C Runtime Library used in Android. I was unable to find any documentation to build bionic alone, which gave rise to this.

Prerequisites

Please install python2, libc-dev-i386 and g++-multilib first.

Build

Execute the script, specifying the target configuration:

arch=arm ./build.sh

The resulting libraries with be placed into ./android_build/out/target/product/generic/obj/lib.

Status

Building under Linux subsystem for Windows (WSL) is not supported, yet. The subsystem cannot run 32-bit executables generated while building.

Only the latest Nougat release branch is supported as of now. I'm open to pull requests adding support for older ones. As a consequence, the build system will use ninja, which is mandatory post Marshmallow releases.