[guardian-dev] Build process for Android Tor binary

[Hans of Guardian]

On Dec 27, 2013, at 2:15 PM, Michael Rogers wrote:

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> On 27/12/13 17:42, Nathan of Guardian wrote:
>> We don't bundle Tor with ChatSecure, it is only in Orbot.
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> Doh, sorry, I meant Orbot. ECHRISTMAS :-)
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>> 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"!
> 
> That's fantastic, thanks! I had to make a small change to the Makefile
> on my system, where uname -m is i686 but the NDK expects x86:
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> - -NDK_PROCESSOR:=`uname -m`
> +NDK_PROCESSOR:=$(shell uname -m)
> +ifeq ($(NDK_PROCESSOR), i686)
> +        NDK_PROCESSOR:=x86
> +endif
> 
> Apart from that, everything went as expected.
> 
> Cheers,
> Michael


Nathan, I submitted some patches to update this build system to the bug tracker, which will fix that issue and others, as well as adding some build hardening flags to the process.

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