[guardian-dev] Native binaries in Android L: PIE!

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Here's how to do this build for ffmpeg, this should be easy to incorporate
into android-ffmpeg:
http://vinsol.com/blog/2014/07/30/cross-compiling-ffmpeg-with-x264-for-android/

For storymaker, you might get away with raising your minimum target API to
android-16, then you can ship only PIE binaries.

.hc

Josh Steiner wrote:
> Ug, lots of rumors that L might be launching as early as this week.  -j
> 
> On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner
> <hans at guardianproject.info> wrote:
>>
>> Yeah, I saw that in the NDK.  Its bad.  We'll have to ship two versions of all
>> native binaries, since PIE support is pretty new in Android.
>>
>> .hc
>>
>> Nathan of Guardian wrote:
>>> Seems like we need to review all our cross-compiling code...
>>>
>>> "While using native executables in our existing Android apps we observed
>>> that those executables were no more working with Android L. We came to
>>> know that Android has introduced one more security feature starting from
>>> Android L i.e
>>> Executable must be PIE (Position independent executable)."
>>>
>>> http://vinsol.com/blog/2014/08/19/compiling-native-libraries-for-android-l/
>>>
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