Compiling Android applications for Cotex A 8

Question

I have successfully installed Android Gingerbread 2.3.4 on Beagleboard XM, which is having Cortex A-8. How do I select Cortex -A-8 as target in Eclipse for cross compiling?

Thanks and regards,

Heshsham

Answer 1

You specify which ABIs to support in an ndk project by putting a line in your Application.mk file. If that portion of your source tree is in Eclipse's view of the project you should be able to edit the file from eclipse, otherwise you can use your favorite editor.

http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/index.html gives an example of how to include mips support:

APP_ABI := armeabi armeabi-v7a mips

For Cortex A-8 you'd basically just need to figure out the appropriate ABI name.