Android NDK cmake disable undefined symbols checking for only one library - android

I use noise suppression APIs from OpenSL lib on android and seems it is not included in older NDKs prebuilt OpenSL library. So I got errors like "undefined reference to `SL_IID_ANDROIDNOISESUPPRESSION'". I think this is r17c NDK issue because I have not such errors on r21b. But currently I can not update NDK version for my big legacy crossplatform project. So I want to disable undefined symbols checking while linking to OpenSL ES library on android. I know how to do this for entire project for example from gradle (-DANDROID_ALLOW_UNDEFINED_SYMBOLS=TRUE) but is there possibility to do this only for OpenSL library or at least for my cmake audio module (described in separate cmake file and included in main project).
I'm not very good at cmake and clang linker flags. Trying to do this second day without success(
There is how I include OpenSL on android:
target_link_libraries(my_audio
PRIVATE
android
log
atomic
OpenSLES)

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Bazel Android c++_shared/c++_static issues

We have a project that uses a library that is built on top of Google's Mediapipe, which is built using the Bazel build system.
The project itself is an Android Native Library, built using Gradle with CMake
externalNativeBuild {
cmake {
cppFlags "-std=c++17 -fopenmp -static-openmp -fexceptions -frtti -Wl,-s -Wno-unused-command-line-argument"
arguments "-DANDROID_STL=c++_shared", "-DOpenCV_DIR=${opencvDir}", "-DANDROID_ARM_NEON=TRUE"
}
}
So we end up with 2 (or more later, also dependent on OpenCV for example) shared object libraries - the actual SDK & the Mediapipe project.
We're seeing issues that are similar to this, which lead me to look into the runtime part of our project.
E/libc++abi: terminating with uncaught exception of type std::bad_cast: std::bad_cast
I saw this comment on that issue thread, and adding
System.loadLibrary("c++_shared");
Solved the crash.
However, this is not a practical solution as the project we're building would provide a native SDK in the form of multiple .so files and I wouldn't want to force our clients to have to explicitly load the shared runtime library before using our library.
The gradle library has "-DANDROID_STL=c++_shared" flag, so this is using the shared one, but I couldn't find any way to compile Mediapipe (with Bazel) using c++_shared. I couldn't find any reference to using shared runtime when compiling Bazel projects (except for this, which isn't exactly relevant and the solution didn't help me)
We might be able to work around this by setting -DANDROID_STL=c++_static, but this has other issues, mainly, it violates Android's guidelines for using multiple shared libraries, though it might be possible for for middleware vendors
So the question is,
Is it possible to build Mediapipe (or any other Bazel based) using c++_shared Android STL
If not, are there any other options to solve the runtime conflicts
Is it even a runtime conflict or something else?
I managed to get it working as suggested by using c++_static on all of our shared objects (SDK, Mediapipe, OpenCV and others)

OpenCV for Android via Visual Studio to Unity

I tried to compile a .so library using Visual Studio 2019 along with OpenCV Android in order to use this library in Unity.
There are some answers on how to configure Visual Studio to use OpenCV Android (here or here) but none of these work for me. Below you can see my configurations.
Visual Studio 2019 (running on Windows 10)
android-ndk-r21e // also tried with android-ndk-r15c android-ndk-r16b and android-ndk-r17c
OpenCV Android 4.5.2 // also tried with OpenCV Android 4.0.0, 4.0.1 and 4.1.0
My settings in Visual Studio 2019 look as follows:
Configuration Properties
- General
Platform Toolset Clang 5.0 (also tried Clang 3.8 or GCC 4.9)
Configuration Type Dynamic Library (.so)
Target API Level Nougat 7.0 (android-24) (also tried different versions)
Use STL LLVM libc++ static library (c++_static) (also tried "GNU STL static library (gnustl_static)")
C/C++
- General
Additional Include Directories "Path to OpenCV_4_5_2_Android\sdk\native\jni\include"
Code Generation Enable C++ Exceptions "Yes(-fexceptions)"
Language C++17(-std=c++1z)
Precompiled Headers Not using Precompiled Headers
Linker
- General
Additional Library Directories Path to OpenCV_4_5_2_Android\sdk\native\libs\armeabi-v7a
- Input
Additional Dependencies Path to OpenCV_4_5_2_Android\sdk\native\libs\armeabi-v7a\libopencv_java4.so
My Source.cpp I try to compile is just a single function for testing purposes
#include <opencv2/core.hpp>
extern "C" float test(float a, float b)
{float c = a * b; return c;}
Which gives me the following errors:
E0035 #error directive: This constructor has not been ported to this platform
E0020 identifier "__fp16" is undefined
use of undeclared identifier 'ANDROID_LOG_INFO'
The ANDROID_LOG_INFO error can be fixed when I add #include "android/log.h" at the top of the file that throws this error. But the other two errors still remain.
I had the exact same issue as you (though I used c++ 11) with the exact same setup, and struggled for days. I believe the errors you're seeing (like me) are from arm_neon.h. Very oddly, I was able to just build (not run) the .so successfully, even with those errors (I say "errors" because if you look at arm_neon.h, others pop up), so try it. Maybe it's some kind of IntelliJ/Intellisense mistake more than anything else where it's catching false negatives from some other toolchain setup.
At the same time, I'm not 100% sure I was always able to build with that issue, so try these steps as well if you can't:
use OpenCV 4.0.1 with Android NDK 16rb. The NDK matters when it comes to OpenCV builds, and this is the only supposed match that I know of.
follow this tutorial from scratch: https://amin-ahmadi.com/2019/06/03/how-to-use-opencv-in-unity-for-android/
if the downloaded OpenCV android SDK is still giving trouble, build OpenCV from the source using his other tutorial here: https://amin-ahmadi.com/2019/02/03/how-to-build-opencv-4-x-for-native-android-development/
and then repeat step 2.
MAJOR EDIT:
OpenCV 4.5.2 needs to be treated differently because it no longer uses toolchains with gnu c++.
-When you build OpenCV from CMake, build with Android NDK 21e, and do not use the toolchain in OpenCV 4.5.2. Use the one inside the Android NDK's build folder (android-ndk-r21e\build\cmake).
-When you build your .so from Visual Studio 2019, do not use the GNU STL, use the LLVM. GNU c++ is no longer part of Android NDKs, and you need to cut it out of the process entirely.
-In the Linker Input, put the names of your library files (or file, if it's just the world one) in the Library Dependencies field, not the Additional Dependencies field.
-Everything else is the same as in those common tutorials.

Android Studio app using openCV with openCL

I am very new to Android and I have to code an Android app with openCV.
I try to run the Use OpenCL in Android camera preview based CV application tutorial under Android studio.
I downloaded openCV 3.4 for android and imported the module into my project.
I used adb pull to get libOpenCL.so from my Samsung J5 (which I know supports openCL).
I downloaded OpenCL 1.1 header files and put them in /usr/include/CL
I integrated the java and cpp files from the tutorial samples repo and added the cpp into CMake
In my CMakeList.txt I have:
add_library( # Sets the name of the library.
native-lib
# Sets the library as a shared library.
SHARED
# Provides a relative path to your source file(s).
src/main/cpp/native-lib.cpp
src/main/cpp/jni.c
src/main/cpp/CLProcessor.cpp)
But I am getting TONS of error like
Error:(749, 23) error: use of undeclared identifier 'malloc'; did you mean 'alloca'?
or
Error:(36, 2) error: Bionic header ctype.h does not define either _U nor _CTYPE_U
Since this is my first ever Android project I am completly lost (I read a lot of papers/answers...).
Can anyone help me?
EDIT: I found why I had these particular compile error: I retrieved openCL 1.1 headers and changing them to 1.2 fixed compile error.
I managed to successfuly compile openCL with openCV (but even though my device has openCL with CL-GL interop, the platform has no openCL extensions at all).
(I have Android Studio 3.0.1 under Debian 9.3.)
This compile error is caused by use of openCL 1.1 headers. Use openCl 1.2 instead.

Set ANDROID_STL in CMakeLists

I am compiling C++ library code in Android Studio 2.2. I follow the new guide, where I add all the files to my project and compile it using CMake (and CMakeLists.txt) like this. I want to use C++14 features, and stuff like atomic, stoi etc. but the building is failing with errors.
error: no type named 'condition_variable' in namespace 'std'
error: no member named 'stoi' in namespace 'std'
This is what my CMakeLists looks like (other lines set source files and other stuff):
find_library(GLES GLESv2)
include_directories(${COMMON_PATH} /usr/local/include)
set(ANDROID_STL "c++_shared")
set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -std=c++14 -latomic")
add_library(native-lib SHARED ${COMMON_SRC})
target_link_libraries(native-lib ${GLES})
I found this article on the android page (here), but I don't know how and if I can do this when using CMakeLists and not ndk-build. I see other question that solve it using the c++_static runtime but only with ndk-build.
This documentation would be more useful for cmake case:
arguments "-DANDROID_STL=c++_shared
Gradle also packs libc++_shared.so into APK when using c++_shared; bypassing Gradle might cause trouble for your app on early version of Android OS.
at the time of this question, Android Studio might have trouble; at the time now Android Studio 3.1.3, it should be ok
The cross-compilation process used to generate the native libraries for Android uses the c++ dependencies from the NDK libraries. The NDK provided by Google is good and it has lots of things, but the C++11 and C++14 support is not complete.
If you want to use C++14 features, you can use other NDK like CrystaX NDK for example. With CrystaX you have also C++17 support.

Use ARMCC to compile Android native library

I've been working on an Android project which has several native C++ libraries. Compiling and debugging using Eclipse with ADT plugin works well. Obviously Android NDK uses arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc of some version to compile the native libraries.
Since I've been using NEON intrinsics heavily, I would like to try to compile the native libraries with ARM's official compiler armcc. I read everywhere that armcc is supposed to give better optimized code when using intrinsics. So I downloaded the trial version of DS-5 from ARM website, just to try and see whether there's really any speed difference.
The DS-5 seems to be just a modified version of Eclipse that uses the ARMCC toolchain, so I installed the ADT plugin. But when I compile using DS-5, it seems that the code is still generated using gcc rather than armcc.
Do you have any idea how to force DS-5 or Eclipse to build the Android native code using armcc? Or is it possible (and how) to build the static NDK libraries from command line and then replace the libraries in my project, so they get deployed to the testing phone?
ARM DS-5 Community Edition doesn't include ARM compiler (armcc).
If you could get hold of armcc best would be to separate your processing heavy algorithms to individual compilation units (separate C files), build them with armcc as you would do for any compilation unit. When you get the object files, convert them into an archive then use that in Android.mk as LOCAL_STATIC_LIBRARIES += <your_archive>.
You can't use armcc plainly to build Android compatible libraries mostly because of Bionic dependencies, I think.
You can use armcc to build Android compatible static libraries even though Android has a different C library (bionic). The key is the --library_interface flag for armcc. According to the documentation:
Use an option of the form --library_interface=aeabi_* when linking with an ABI-compliant C library. Options of the form --library_interface=aeabi_* ensure that the compiler does not generate calls to any optimized functions provided by the ARM C library.
In addition, there are a few more flags to ensure compatibility with the Android EABI resulting in the following command for an Android armeabi-v7a target:
armcc --library_interface=aeabi_clib --wchar32 --enum_is_int --no_hide_all --cpu=7-A --fpu=softvfp+vfpv3 -c -o libfunc.o libfunc.c
You can then use armar --create libfunc.a libfunc.o to create a static library that can be linked with the Android NDK as LOCAL_STATIC_LIBRARIES.
I have successfully tested this with Android NDK r10d on Android KitKat 4.4.2.

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