In attempting to compile ICU49 using Android NDKv7b, I ran into the following: /home/tim/icu49/icu/source/common/putil.cpp:

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Asked: May 31, 20262026-05-31T14:40:29+00:00 2026-05-31T14:40:29+00:00

In attempting to compile ICU49 using Android NDKv7b, I ran into the following: /home/tim/icu49/icu/source/common/putil.cpp:

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In attempting to compile ICU49 using Android NDKv7b, I ran into the following:

/home/tim/icu49/icu/source/common/putil.cpp: In function 'int32_t uprv_timezone_49()':
/home/tim/icu49/icu/source/common/putil.cpp:637: error: '__timezone' was not declared in this scope
/home/tim/icu49/icu/source/common/putil.cpp: At global scope:
/home/tim/icu49/icu/source/common/putil.cpp:2253: error: expected constructor, destructor, or type conversion before '*' token

using

export ANDROIDVER=8
export AR=/usr/bin/ar
export BASE=/home/tim/icu49
export HOST_ICU=$BASE/icu
export ICU_CROSS_BUILD=$BASE/icu-linux
export NDK_ROOT=$BASE/android-ndk-r7b
export CPPFLAGS="-I$NDK_ROOT/platforms/android-$ANDROIDVER/arch-arm/usr/include/ -O3 -fno-short-wchar -DU_USING_ICU_NAMESPACE=0 -DU_GNUC_UTF16_STRING=0 -fno-short-enums -DU_HAVE_NL_LANGINFO_CODESET=0 -D__STDC_INT64__"
export LDFLAGS="-lc -Wl,-rpath-link=$NDK_ROOT/platforms/android-$ANDROIDVER/arch-arm/usr/lib/ -L$NDK_ROOT/platforms/android-$ANDROIDVER/arch-arm/usr/lib/"

export OLDPATH=$PATH
export PATH=/home/tim/icu49/api$ANDROIDVER/bin:$PATH

$NDK_ROOT/build/tools/make-standalone-toolchain.sh --platform=android-$ANDROIDVER --install-dir=$BASE/api$ANDROIDVER

$HOST_ICU/source/configure --with-cross-build=$ICU_CROSS_BUILD --enable-extras=no --enable-strict=no -enable-static --enable-shared=no --enable-tests=no --enable-samples=no --enable-dyload=no --enable-tools=no --host=arm-linux-androideabi

Any advice would be much appreciated.