Building SpiderMonkey with Android NDK toolchain

Question

I am porting a game using SpiderMonkey to Android. Because I need to integrate with the game's existing build system, I have to build SpiderMonkey using the Android NDK standalone toolchain, not the ndk- build tool. Can anyone please tell me how to accomplish this?

I can see that SpiderMonkey's configure has an --with-android- toolchain=DIR option, but I am unsure how to use it - specifically, which other options I need to combine it with?

Thank you.

Answer 1

I'm really bad at build systems (especially ours), and I mostly follow instructions in wikis. The Android build instructions for Mobile firefox are available here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Android

When you build mobile Firefox it will create the JavaScript shell executable as a binary and I think you can also request a libmozjs.so to link against.

Answer 2

I ended up using the instructions on this page: http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Installing_on_Android

Only shortcoming is that it only works with the old toolchain it suggests.