[gecode-users] Gecode version with ANDROID NDK ?

[Max Ostrowski]

Let me also thank for this,
this makes Gecode even more usable as a library in a project where you
do not use the thread support of gecode
(always problems with linking to pthread)

Best,
Max

On 10/15/2013 12:47 AM, Guido Tack wrote:
> Great, thanks for the patch!  I added it to the svn trunk and also
> made thread support configurable (with the --disable-thread switch).
>
> Cheers,
> Guido
>
> On 15/10/2013, at 12:15 AM, christine bouzant
> <christine.bouzant at gmail.com <mailto:christine.bouzant at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Thank you for your answer.
>> I decided to switch off thread support as you said.
>> It compiles if i add #include <cstddef> inside
>> gecode/support/thread.hpp and if, in the same file,
>> i replace line 130 :
>> #ifdef GECODE_THREADS_WINDOWS by #if defined(GECODE_THREADS_WINDOWS)
>> || !defined(GECODE_THREADS_PTHREADS)
>> in order to have FastMutex defined.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Christine
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 2013/10/12 Guido Tack <tack at gecode.org <mailto:tack at gecode.org>>
>>
>>     Hi,
>>
>>     we don't have plans to support the Android NDK (we simply don't
>>     have the resources right now to adapt and test everything on
>>     every possible system).  But of course if you manage to create a
>>     patch that would make Gecode work with the NDK, that would be
>>     very welcome and we may include it in the main distribution.
>>
>>     Technically I believe the pthread API in Android is a bit limited
>>     compared to full posix threads, so I'm not even sure it can be
>>     done. Alternatively you could switch off thread support
>>     altogether.  Currently configure just checks for the presence of
>>     pthread.h, but if you simply remove the call to AC_GECODE_THREADS
>>     from configure.ac <http://configure.ac/> and run autoconf,
>>     configure, make, this might work.  Please let me know, if this
>>     solves the problem I'll add a configure switch to disable thread
>>     support entirely.
>>
>>     Cheers,
>>     Guido
>>
>>     On 12/10/2013, at 1:28 AM, christine bouzant
>>     <christine.bouzant at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:christine.bouzant at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>>     Hello all,
>>>
>>>     I'd like to know if it is planned to make a version compatible
>>>     with the android ndk ?
>>>     It seems that the case for the NDK's pthread.h is not
>>>     implemented and so an application cannot compile. Unless there
>>>     is something wrong in my configuration...
>>>
>>>     Best regards,
>>>
>>>     Christine
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>>     -- 
>>     Guido Tack,
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>>
>>
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