Build

Set up the build environment

These instructions should work on Mac and Linux. Windows/cygwin is not investigated yet. If you get this to work, please send the details and it will be added to the wiki.

Get the latest Android SDK and NDK. You need to install support for the android-9 platform.

Install a recent version of Python 2.x.

Install Git.

Download the code

Create a directory that will contain all of the repositories you need.

mkdir anode
cd anode

Clone each of the repositories in turn.

git clone git://github.com/paddybyers/anode.git

git clone https://github.com/guardianproject/openssl-android.git

git clone <pty repo, yet to be added>.

git clone git://github.com/paddybyers/node.git

This last repository has a v0.4-android branch that contains the Android report, so check this out:

cd node
git checkout v0.4-android

Environment variables

NODE_PATH must point to the root of the node repo just created.

export NODE_PATH=path_to_anode_dir/node
export NDK_MODULE_PATH=path_to_anode_dir:path_to_anode_dir/anode

Build the native code

cd anode/libnode
ndk-build

Once the native library is built, this needs to be included as an asset in the top-level Android project:

ln -s libs/armeabi/libjninode.so ../app/assets/libjninode.so

Or if you prefer (or on Windows), edit the top-level makefile to add an install target to perform the copy.

Set up the Eclipse Android projects

Open Eclipse and do:

File->Import->Import existing projects into workspace

Import both the app and libnode projects.

You are now ready to build and run.