Question

i have created an android application,here most of my code is in c so i have created it using jni. i have to create socket.so file, in which i have to use the libtest.so.

while using the libtest.so in socket.so i get the error:undefined reference to function(). my function() is present inside the libtest.so. so to avid this by suggestion i have created my Android.mk as below:

LOCAL_PATH := $(call my-dir)

include $(CLEAR_VARS)
LOCAL_MODULE := libtest
LOCAL_SRC_FILES := libtest.so
include $(PREBUILT_SHARED_LIBRARY)

include $(CLEAR_VARS)
LOCAL_MODULE := socket
LOCAL_SHARED_LIBRARIES += libtest
LOCAL_SRC_FILES := source/interface.c source/file.c
LOCAL_LDFLAGS += libtest.a  
LOCAL_C_INCLUDES := $(LOCAL_PATH)/../../libtest/jni/include
include $(BUILD_SHARED_LIBRARY)

but it requires both the libtest.so & libtest.a file to be present. where as if i am using only the libtest.a it works perfectly fine.

since my requirement is to create libtest.so and include it in socket.so can any one please tell me how to avoid dependency of .a file to create .so file.

if i will comment LOCAL_LDFLAGS += libtest.a then i am getting the error:undefined reference to function()

any one plz help me to get out of this problem…….

Answer 1

Seems a bit unclean.

The shared library (.so) and the archive (.a) are both supposed to contain the same code, but in practice they might not. The first thing you should do is check if the .so really has all the symbols. The linker might have optimized some out. Use the nm utility or objdump for that purpose.

Can you also post a console dump of the commands ndk-build is executing?

You might also try to avoid what you’re doing, as the NDK is not really meant to produce shared libraries that depend on each other. It’s possible of course, but the recommended approach is to stuff your libs into static archives and link them directly into the resulting JNI .so.

Edit:

LOCAL_SRC_FILES := libtest.so seems wrong. If you want to link with a shared library, pass the library to the linker not the compiler: LOCAL_LDFLAGS += libtest.so or, even better, LOCAL_LDFLAGS += -L. -ltest