[Ohrrpgce] android build machine

Mon Dec 25 13:55:35 PST 2023

Well, you don't want the SDK that I have, because it no longer works!
Running "android" (a binary from 2018) I get Android SDK Manager revision
25.2.5 which shows the most recent "SDK Platform" available for install
being one for Android API 29 (Android 10). Which is the one I have
installed. I had been meaning to install a newer SDK but had no idea that
the SDK manager itself was no longer functional.

Since you have targetSdkVersion set to 30, my SDK no longer works (it gets
all the way through compiling and linking but fails in the final steps of
packaging the .apk). I managed to create an .apk only by decreasing the
target to 29 and changing my PATH to point to an older javac (javac from
jdk-17.0.1 threw an error "Source option 5 is no longer supported. Use 7 or
later." (about its "-source 1.5" argument), while javac 1.8.0 from
openjdk-8u392 only printed a deprecation warning. Seems like Java has
suffered a Perl 5/6-style fork)

BTW when I try to edit  android:targetSdkVersion="30" in
project/AndroidManifest[Template].xml it seems to have no effect. I finally
figured out I have to edit project/project.properties too. That file claims
to be autogenerated but is it? I couldn't figure out how to do so.

On Tue, 26 Dec 2023 at 06:11, James Paige via Ohrrpgce <
ohrrpgce at lists.motherhamster.org> wrote:

> TMC, Question! What version of the Android SDK do you have installed?
>
> I think my version is probably from around 2012, and it is so old I don't
> even know how to install it again (which makes it rough to create a Docker
> image for it)
>
> I tried with the latest SDK, but it doesn't even have the "android" binary
> anymore, it has "sdkmanager" instead with different command line arguments,
> but our dusty old fork of sdl-android relies on "android"
>
> I'm hoping to find the oldest sdk that still works as a quick-fix, but
> googling for "when did android SDK stop having android" doesn't work very
> well :D
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 9:10 PM James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Oh, I am pretty sure I know what is wrong. The nightly build vm for
>> android is still Debian 9. It has scons version 2.3, which is still python
>> 2.7 based. The latest scons on my Debian 11 box is 4.0
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 9:13 PM James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 7:40 PM Ralph Versteegen via Ohrrpgce <
>>> ohrrpgce at lists.motherhamster.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> That's strange... works on my machine. The error is:
>>>>
>>>> jni/../jni/application/ohrrpgce/tmp//filelayer.cpp:7:24: fatal error:
>>>> fb/fb_stub.h: No such file or directory
>>>>  #include "fb/fb_stub.h"
>>>>                         ^
>>>>
>>>> And the reason for the error is that copy_source_actions() in
>>>> ohrbuild.py isn't copying fb/fb_stub.h to android/tmp/ apparently because
>>>> node.get_implicit_deps(), which is meant to run a sconscript builtin source
>>>> scanner to return the list of headers isn't working. Try uncommenting the
>>>> two lines immediately below that:
>>>>         def scstr(x): return ",".join(str(y) for y in x)
>>>>         print("node", str(node), "sources", scstr(node.sources),
>>>> "headers", scstr(headers))
>>>> It should print:
>>>> node filelayer.cpp sources  headers
>>>> errorlog.h,fb/fb_stub.h,filelayer.hpp,lumpfile.h,mutex.hpp,config.h,miscc.h,fb/fb_array.h,fb/fb_config.h,fb/fb_device.h,fb/fb_error.h,fb/fb_file.h,fb/fb_string.h,fb/fb_thread.h,os.h,fb/fb_blackbox_config.h
>>>>
>>>
>>> What it actually prints on the nightly build machine is:
>>>
>>> node filelayer.cpp sources  headers
>>>
>>> I haven't spotted why yet.
>>>
>>>
>>>> As for .aab support... I had a look at upstream commandergenius. They
>>>> seem to use gradle to create the .aab file, plus have a script for signing
>>>> it. Gradle isn't used for just that. The addition of all the gradle stuff
>>>> is new since we forked. I don't know whether you want to copy or reuse the
>>>> upstream work, requiring gradle, or completely reimplement support some
>>>> other way.
>>>>
>>>> Trying to merge our fork with upstream commandergenius with "git merge"
>>>> isn't going to work ("Your branch and 'origin/sdl_android' have diverged,
>>>> and have 79 and 1915 different commits each, respectively" which doesn't
>>>> begin to describe the enormous patches and conflicts... I tried git merge
>>>> after which on the first conflict "git status" outputs 17972 lines and "git
>>>> diff" 10588 lines of conflicts!). Manually merging it by cherry-picking or
>>>> applying (some of) our commits on top of upstream might be practical but is
>>>> still tons of work. Cherry-picking their commits which add .aab support is
>>>> clearly far less work but isn't easy either, because on top of the .aab
>>>> signing commits (I couldn't easily figure out which commits are needed but
>>>> "git log --grep bundle" is a good start) you'd also need all the ones for
>>>> gradle support.
>>>>
>>>
>>> First I'll dig around and see if there is a way to just change the
>>> existing scripts to support aab format, which might be possible, I don't
>>> know yet.
>>> If not, I think trying to cherry-pick our commits on top of upstream
>>> sounds like the least work, but I'll cross that bridge only if I don't find
>>> any easier shortcuts.
>>>
>>> I'll keep you posted if I find anything.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, 16 Dec 2023 at 01:49, James Paige via Ohrrpgce <
>>>> ohrrpgce at lists.motherhamster.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I forgot to mention, the android builds have been broken for a while
>>>>> (Since October 27)
>>>>>
>>>>> I haven't had time to narrow it down to the exact revision yet, but
>>>>> I'll work on it when I have time.
>>>>> I also want to work on the Android 12 fix, (I know what to do) and the
>>>>> .aab format (Don't know what to do yet, but I'll figure it out eventually)
>>>>>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> James
>>>>>
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