[Gllug] C binary and tzdata on Android?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 03:39:02PM +0100, Robert McKay wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 3:07 PM, gvim <gvimrc at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm looking to build an Android app - and hopefully for the iPhone too -
> > which needs to call a C binary and use the standard Linux 'tzdata' library.
> > Is this possible and if so, can it be bundled as a regular app?
> >
> 
> It's certainly possible.. but you might have to include several copies of
> the binary for different android architectures.
> 
> You can just exec it
> 
> http://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Runtime.html
> 
> or you could make a native shared library and stubs to call it.
> 
> http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/index.html

But there's no glibc right?  Does anyone know if the replacement
libc is full-featured, or just enough to get the JVM to run?

Rich.

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