superlcr/jsc-android-buildscripts

Script for building JavaScriptCore for Android (for React Native but not only)

JSC Android Builder

Requirements

• Homebrew (https://brew.sh/)
• GNU coreutils brew install coreutils
• Node brew install node
• Java 8: brew tap caskroom/versions && brew cask install java8
• Android SDK: brew cask install android-sdk
  • Run sdkmanager --list and install all platforms, tools, buildtool v28.0.3, cmake (>=3.10)
  • Set $ANDROID_HOME to the correct path (in ~/.bashrc or similar)
  • Set export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools:$ANDROID_HOME/tools/bin
• Android NDK r19c: download from NDK Archives
  • Set export ANDROID_NDK=/path/to/android-ndk (>=19)
• Make sure you have Ruby (>2.3), Python (>2.7), Git, SVN, gperf

Build instructions

1. Clone this repo
2. npm run clean will clean everything (artifacts, downloaded sources)
3. Update the version in package.json. The version will be printed by JSC lib as soon as it loads
4. Update the config section under package.json to the desired build configuration
5. Update patches if needed (don't forget to update the printVersion patch in jsc.patch)
6. npm run download: downloads all needed sources
7. npm run start: builds jsc (this might take some time...)

• The android-jsc AAR will be available at /dist
• The android-jsc AAR (so without strip) will be available at /dist.unstripped