Android

Here's some rough info for compiling for Android:

To run on Android, what you have to do is compile HL runtime, supporting libraries, and your project's code compiled to C (since there's no HL/JIT for ARMs as of moment of writing) as a native library using NDK. Instead of a standard main entry-point, you need to provide a special exported function conforming to JNI standards, and then call main routines from it.

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CMakeLists.txt in the hashlink repo is useful: you can basiscally copy-paste configurations into CMakeLists.txt of your android project and get libhl and friends built.

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minSdkVersion should be at least 16, otherwise you'll get posix_memalign undefined reference error

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The JNI_OnLoad function located in sys_android.c (called on library load) imposes some requirements:

• The activity class name should be whatever is defined with HL_ANDROID_ACTIVITY (by default: org/haxe/HashLinkActivity)
• The activity class must have a public static Context getContext() method that returns the application context.

Here's what worked for me for a simple HL/C hello world:

package com.example.native_activity;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Context;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {
    private static MainActivity instance;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle state) {
        super.onCreate(state);
        instance = this;

        System.loadLibrary("hl");
        System.loadLibrary("native-activity");

        startHL();
    }

    public static Context getContext() {
        return instance.getApplicationContext();
    }

    public native void startHL(); // see comment below
}

the startHL function is just something like this:

JNIEXPORT jstring JNICALL Java_com_example_native_1activity_MainActivity_startHL(JNIEnv* env, jobject thiz) {
	main(0, NULL); // this is the `main` function from `hlc_main.c`
	               // or it could be custom initialization code that calls `hl_entry_point`
}

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Some work has been started on calling Java from HashLink (through JNI): https://github.com/nadako/hljni