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The C compiler "clang.exe" is not able to compile a simple test program

I am trying to compile shell script that compiles the C project library, but i am stuck at this when it comes to compile the nmake part.
I am using NDK 21 and cmake version is 3.10
I am using shell script using bash same as defined here, i want to compress this library as they showing in the docs running ./android.sh
Please check the link: https://github.com/tanersener/mobile-ffmpeg#52-build-scripts
here is the attached log:
DEBUG: Downloading library source: cpu-features
DEBUG: Checking if cpu-features is already downloaded at /d/Bilals/Projects/GithubProjects/mobile-ffmpeg/src/cpu-features
INFO: cpu-features library already downloaded
INFO: cpu-features already downloaded. Source folder found at /d/Bilals/Projects/GithubProjects/mobile-ffmpeg/src/cpu-features
-- Building for: NMake Makefiles
-- Check for working C compiler: D:/Bilals/PcBackupData/sdk/ndk/21.3.6528147/toolchains/llvm/prebuilt/windows-x86_64/bin/clang.exe
CMake Error: Generator: execution of make failed. Make command was: "nmake" "/NOLOGO" "cmTC_adf3f\fast"
-- Check for working C compiler: D:/Bilals/PcBackupData/sdk/ndk/21.3.6528147/toolchains/llvm/prebuilt/windows-x86_64/bin/clang.exe -- broken
CMake Error at D:/Bilals/PcBackupData/sdk/cmake/3.10.2.4988404/share/cmake-3.10/Modules/CMakeTestCCompiler.cmake:52 (message):
The C compiler
"D:/Bilals/PcBackupData/sdk/ndk/21.3.6528147/toolchains/llvm/prebuilt/windows-x86_64/bin/clang.exe"
is not able to compile a simple test program.
It fails with the following output:
Change Dir: D:/Bilals/Projects/GithubProjects/mobile-ffmpeg/android/build/cpu-features/arm/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp
Run Build Command:"nmake" "/NOLOGO" "cmTC_adf3f\fast"
The system cannot find the file specified
Generator: execution of make failed. Make command was: "nmake" "/NOLOGO" "cmTC_adf3f\fast"
CMake will not be able to correctly generate this project.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
CMakeLists.txt:9 (project)
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "D:/Bilals/Projects/GithubProjects/mobile-ffmpeg/android/build/cpu-features/arm/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
See also "D:/Bilals/Projects/GithubProjects/mobile-ffmpeg/android/build/cpu-features/arm/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log".
and here is my environmental variables

You should use Linux Make, not NMake. Generally speaking, these scripts were never tuned to run on Windows, in cygwin or mingw shell, even though I have run them in WSL (Ubuntu) bash.

NDK link C++ library .a error, no archive symbol table (run ranlib)

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We have a C/C++ project wallet-core that is using third party library libsecp256k1, and we install libsecp256k1 into /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/include, all works well in wallet-core Unit Test, till we add it to android, which call wallet-core.
call links:
android project -> wallet-core -> trezor_crypto -> libsecp256k1
When we run tools/android-test, got error in link period:
xxxx -L/usr/local/lib trezor-crypto/libTrezorCrypto.a libprotobuf.a -llog /usr/local/lib/libsecp256k1.a -latomic -lm && :
/Users/bibodeng/Library/Android/sdk/ndk-bundle/toolchains/llvm/prebuilt/darwin-x86_64/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-android/4.9.x/../../../../x86_64-linux-android/bin/ld: error: /usr/local/lib/libsecp256k1.a: no archive symbol table (run ranlib)
../../../../../../trezor-crypto/src/ecdsa.c:1211: error: undefined reference to 'secp256k1_context_create'
../../../../../../trezor-crypto/src/ecdsa.c:1213: error: undefined reference to 'secp256k1_schnorr_sign'
clang++: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
Configuring for JNI
two function is undefined and there is no symbols, tell me ranlib. ranlib result:
$ranlib libsecp256k1.a
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/ranlib: archive member: libsecp256k1.a(/0) size too large (archive member extends past the end of the file)
I run nm -g libsecp256k1.a also said it's truncated or malformed archive.
Please help me to solve this problem, we have stuck several days. Thanks a lot.
guess reason
I read many answer and guess it's reason:
linker will run ranlib before link, but it fail cause there is no
symbol ranlib failed because libsecp256k1.a
archive file is too big or maybe not in good format
libsecp256k1.a file is not
generated well or ranlib has problems.
codes & config
libsecp256k1: https://github.com/Bitcoin-ABC/secp256k1
./autogen.sh
mkdir build
cd build
../configure --enable-module-schnorr
make
make check
sudo make install
wallet-core: https://github.com/IFWallet/wallet-core/tree/free_cash
git clone git#github.com:IFWallet/wallet-core.git
git checkout free_cash
cd wallet-core
./bootstrap.sh
./tools/android-test
download the codes from github and checkout free_cash branch, run upper cmd will get the same error.
relate answers
I already try this answer, but not work.
ndk-no-archive-symbol-table

How to build OpenSSL 1.1.1 for 64 bit Android using NDK 17

Failing to build OpenSSL for 64bit Android. Here are the steps I've taken:
Downloaded the setenv_android.sh from https://wiki.openssl.org/images/7/70/Setenv-android.sh
Downloaded OpenSSL 1.1.1 from https://www.openssl.org/source/old/1.1.1/openssl-1.1.1.tar.gz
Unpacked the tar file
Modified the setenv_android script so that running it produced this output:
ANDROID_NDK_ROOT: /Users/spartygw/android-ndk-r17
ANDROID_ARCH: arch-arm64
ANDROID_EABI: aarch64-linux-android-4.9
ANDROID_API: android-22
ANDROID_SYSROOT: /Users/spartygw/android-ndk-r17/platforms/android-22/arch-arm64
ANDROID_TOOLCHAIN: /Users/spartygw/android-ndk-r17/toolchains/aarch64-linux-android-4.9/prebuilt/darwin-x86_64/bin
FIPS_SIG:
CROSS_COMPILE: aarch64-linux-android-
ANDROID_DEV: /Users/spartygw/android-ndk-r17/platforms/android-22/arch-arm64/usr
Configured the openssl with: ./Configure no-rc5 no-idea no-md2 no-cast linux-aarch64
Ran make depend; make
Output:
In file included from crypto/aes/aesv8-armx.S:1:
crypto/arm_arch.h:55:6: error: "unsupported ARM architecture"
# error "unsupported ARM architecture"
^
1 error generated.
make[1]: *** [crypto/aes/aesv8-armx.o] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2
This writeup makes it sound like I ran into this problem and stopped. I assure you I've spent a complete workday trying various things and googling to no avail. I don't want to litter the question with junk that I tried (passing in different ARM_ARCH values, trying other versions of openSSL, trying different NDKs).

The scripts and examples on OpenSSL Wiki are badly outdated. The specific build script does not support arm64.
Luckily, GitHub comes to rescue: try https://github.com/noloader/Android-PRNG/blob/master/setenv-android.sh.

How do you update the GNU linker for an Android NDK?

I am working on a native Android project using NDK r12b. This NDK (and it looks like all others since) ships with a prebuilt GNU linker version 2.25. We have recently tried to pull up lots of our project's submodules which has introduced a build error that looks like it is caused by this bug in ld.
build error output:
/opt/android-ndk-r12b/toolchains/arm-linux-androideabi-4.9/prebuilt/linux-x86_64/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-androideabi/4.9.x/../../../../arm-linux-androideabi/bin/ld: internal error in do_relocate_sections, at /usr/local/google/buildbot/src/android/gcc/toolchain/build/../binutils/binutils-2.25/gold/reloc.cc:953
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
I thought I would attempt to update the linker but have had no luck finding prebuilt binaries. So I went down the rabbit hole of trying to compile ld/binutils myself. Either my Google skills are failing me, or documentation for doing this is truly rare or presumes the user has a lot of introductory knowledge that I don't have.
When building binutils 2.29.1 with target=arm-linux my application build errors out with this result:
/opt/android-ndk-r12b/toolchains/arm-linux-androideabi-4.9/prebuilt/linux-x86_64/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-androideabi/4.9.x/../../../../arm-linux-androideabi/bin/ld: unrecognised emulation mode: armelf_linux_eabi
Supported emulations: armelf_linux armelf armelfb armelfb_linux
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
For reference, the -V output of our current version of ld is:
me#linux-vm:/opt/android-ndk-r12b/toolchains/arm-linux-androideabi-4.9/prebuilt/linux-x86_64/arm-linux-androideabi/bin$ ./ld-2.25 -V
GNU gold (binutils-2.25-0666073 2.25.51.20141117) 1.11
Supported targets:
elf64-littleaarch64
elf64-bigaarch64
elf32-littleaarch64
elf32-bigaarch64
elf64-tradlittlemips
elf32-tradlittlemips-nacl
elf64-tradbigmips
elf32-tradlittlemips-nacl
elf32-tradlittlemips
elf32-tradlittlemips-nacl
elf32-tradbigmips
elf32-tradlittlemips-nacl
elf32-tilegx-be
elf64-tilegx-be
elf32-tilegx-le
elf64-tilegx-le
elf32-bigarm
elf32-bigarm-nacl
elf32-littlearm
elf32-littlearm-nacl
elf64-powerpcle
elf64-powerpc
elf32-powerpcle
elf32-powerpc
elf64-sparc
elf32-sparc
elf32-x86-64
elf32-x86-64-freebsd
elf32-x86-64-nacl
elf64-x86-64
elf64-x86-64-freebsd
elf64-x86-64-nacl
elf32-i386
elf32-i386-freebsd
elf32-i386-nacl
Supported emulations:
aarch64_elf64_le_vec
aarch64_elf64_be_vec
aarch64_elf32_le_vec
aarch64_elf32_be_vec
elf64-tradlittlemips
elf32-tradlittlemips-nacl
elf64-tradbigmips
elf32-tradlittlemips-nacl
elf32-tradlittlemips
elf32-tradlittlemips-nacl
elf32-tradbigmips
elf32-tradlittlemips-nacl
elf32tilegx_be
elf64tilegx_be
elf32tilegx
elf64tilegx
armelfb
armelfb_nacl
armelf
armelf_nacl
elf64lppc
elf64ppc
elf32lppc
elf32ppc
elf64_sparc
elf32_sparc
elf32_x86_64
elf32_x86_64_nacl
elf_x86_64
elf_x86_64_nacl
elf_i386
elf_i386_nacl
So apparently I'm missing some important configuration parameters. I also tried using an older (r8e) Android NDK's build/tools/build-gcc.sh script to build the entire compiler toolchain but with a newer binutils version. This resulted in an unknown build error:
me#linux-vm:/opt/android-ndk-r8e/build/tools$ ./build-gcc.sh --gmp-version=5.0.5 --mpfr-version=3.1.1 --mpc-version=1.0.1 --binutils-version=2.26
$(pwd)/src $(pwd) arm-linux-androideabi-4.7
To follow build in another terminal, please use: tail -F /tmp/ndk-me/build/toolchain/config.log
Using C compiler: gcc -m32
Using C++ compiler: g++ -m32
Sysroot : Copying: /opt/android-ndk-r8e/platforms/android-9/arch-arm --> /tmp/ndk-me/build/toolchain/prefix/sysroot
Configure: arm-linux-androideabi-4.7 toolchain build
Building : arm-linux-androideabi-4.7 toolchain [this can take a long time].
Error while building toolchain. See /tmp/ndk-me/build/toolchain/config.log
Last entries of config.log:
ar cru libintl.a bindtextdom.o dcgettext.o dgettext.o gettext.o finddomain.o loadmsgcat.o localealias.o textdomain.o l10nflist.o explodename.o dcigettext.o dcngettext.o dngettext.o ngettext.o plural.o plural-exp.o localcharset.o relocatable.o localename.o log.o osdep.o intl-compat.o
ranlib libintl.a
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/ndk-me/build/toolchain/libbfd-binutils-2.26/intl'
At this point I'm just spinning my tires and trying to brute force success with different combinations of configuration parameters and source package versions. It seems as simple as adding emulation support for armelf_linux_eabi, but like I said, I have failed to find any documentation or guides that show how to do this. Surely there is a GNU wizard out there somewhere who could point me down a better path? Any help is appreciated!

I would try --enable-targets=all first. It is a bit of a big hammer, but maybe it helps you to avoid figuring out the exact target triplets you need (my guess would be arm-unknown-linux-eabi).

`gomobile build` and `gomobile install` throws "gomobile: EOF"

I'm trying to build an android application using gomobile but the commands gomobile install and gomobile build fail with gomobile: EOF . Before this error I was getting this error:
# golang.org/x/mobile/gl
In file included from /root/go/src/golang.org/x/mobile/gl/gl.go:17:0:
work.h:6:23: fatal error: GLES2/gl2.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated. but it was fixed with yum install make gcc mesa-libGLES-devel mesa-libEGL-devel.
The application is mostly a networking application. Here are the imports. Do only certain packages work with gomobile or all of them?
"golang.org/x/mobile/app"
"golang.org/x/net/websocket"
"os/exec"
"flag"
"fmt"
log "github.com/golang/glog"
"io/ioutil"
"net"
"net/http"
"net/url"
"strconv"
OS: Fedora 22.
More info: I'm able to build https://github.com/golang/mobile/blob/master/example/network/main.go so I can only assume the issue is specific to my application.

It failed because AndroidManifest.xml was empty.