[guardian-dev] Build process for Android Tor binary

[Nathan of Guardian]

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On 12/27/2013 11:23 AM, Michael Rogers wrote:
> Does anyone have a few minutes to give me a quick description of
> how you cross-compile the Tor binary that's bundled with
> ChatSecure? We're using Guardian's Tor binaries for Briar, but we
> ought to build all our dependencies from source (deterministically,
> in the long term). Is there a build script somewhere that I can
> refer to?

We don't bundle Tor with ChatSecure, it is only in Orbot. ChatSecure
uses a simple helper class to check if Orbot is running (based on
process list), and then requests it to start via Intent API if it is
not on.

https://github.com/guardianproject/NetCipher/blob/master/libonionkit/src/info/guardianproject/onionkit/ui/OrbotHelper.java

Regardless, still happy to help you compile your own Tor. It is quite
a robust build process.

1) Ensure you have NDK installed

2) Set your ANDROID_NDK home env variable.

3) cd Orbot/external

4) run "make"!

More build info here:
https://gitweb.torproject.org/orbot.git/blob/HEAD:/BUILD

Makefile here if you want to enjoy the _hc's evil genious of fusing
Make with NDK-BUILD:
https://gitweb.torproject.org/orbot.git/blob/HEAD:/external/Makefile

I'm around on IRC if you have any questions.

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