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Box86 on Android with NDK toolchain
After some tweaking on source codes, I've managed to compile box86 using Android NDK.
Now it may comes to a challenge: to provide as more function the GNU libc have as possible using the Bionic libc Android devices utilized.
First should be the entrance function: __libc_start_main, which is not found in Android, instead the __libc_init takes its place.
Source code changes I've made:
ref to: https://github.com/Seas0/box86/tree/android-linux-comp
Building on Android, using Android NDK is not supported for now. I gladly accept PR that add build compatibility with Android NDK.
@Seas0 Box86 was able to run wine on 32-bit Termux “proot-static” before Termux disabled using 32-bit proot-static (see AnBox86 on GitHub). I think you probably weren’t wanting proot, but just wanted to let you know it used to be possible with box86
@WheezyE the proot approch has its own limits though, as providing the OpenGL / Vulkan is more difficult and/or the IO performance is greatly limited to proot's user-space syscall hook and handling. So I'm currently making some "LITTLE" changes to make Box86 compile with the NDK Toolchain and what's more important, provide a x86-Linux-like glibc-ish compatible layer using Android's Bionic libc implementation at here (Pretty much WIP, now can only compile using NDK, not running even the test program due to the entrance function __libc_start_main is not found in Android, instead the __libc_init does its work)
I'll probably leave the scene for quite a while, as the semester is yielding an end and exams are around the corner. But any pull request on this is welcomed.
I have a bionic<->glibc compatibility layer here, it may be incomplete though, hope it gets you started: https://github.com/Cloudef/android2gnulinux
