[Nice] Regarding LibNice build for Android

[Youness Alaoui]

Hey David, thanks for the mail, I hope this is helpful for Joyti!
And I'm glad you're finding libnice useful :)

On 08/06/2012 10:20 PM, David Czech wrote:
> Hello Youness, Joyti.
> 
> I'm using libnice for my Google Summer of Code project (a pysoy client for
> Android
> <http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/davidczech/5001>),
> which uses libnice to establish a UDP connection to the pysoy server.
> I've had success cross-compiling the latest libnice (from the git repository) to
> the Android platform, but instead of using a Android.mk file, I have used the
> NDK standalone toolchain.
> I have found that using this standalone toolchain generally works better, but
> whatever works for you. Of course, you will need to have libnice's dependencies
> compiled first, glib etc.
> 
> Anyways, heres my simple libnice test running on my Android device (with the IP
> addresses scrubbed, just in case):
> 
>     $ /data/local/a.out
>     START nice_agent_gather_candidates
>     cb_new_candidate.
>     CB state change
>     cb_component_state_changed: 1: NICE_COMPONENT_STATE_GATHERING
>     cb_new_candidate.
>     CB gather done
>     CANDIDATE: 1 1 2013266431 UDP  IPADDRESSHIDDEN 41027 host
>     CANDIDATE: 2 1 1677721855 UDP IPADDRESSHIDDEN 1027 srv
> 
> 
> Documentation exists for the acquiring and using standalone toolchain in the NDK
> docs. The only option I passed to ./configure was --enabled-shared=no 
> (aside from --host=arm-linux-androideabi and my prefix). The reason for
> disabling building shared libraries is because it doesn't really make sense on
> the Android platform (dynamic libraries are bundled into the Android packages)
> and because of an issue with versioned sonames (which most glib libraries like
> libnice use) and the android packager (see
> http://kapace-gsoc.blogspot.ca/2012/07/android-ndk.html for more info on that).
> 
> Let me know if you need some more help.
> 
> Also, thank you Youness for working on libnice, it is a pretty cool library.
> 
> Thanks,
> David
> 
> 
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