LAMW: Lazarus Android Tools Expert (LATE)
lazarus / 43-Android

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Handoko · 2016-07-19 14:44

LAMW is always full of surprise to me, lots of things to explore and
play with. Today I found Lazarus Android Tools Expert alias LATE. The
name is cool

To find it:
On Lazarus main menu > Tools > [Lamw] Android Module Wizard > LATE:
Apk Expert Tools [Build, Instal, ...]

My question:
Is this tool finished? If yes, then I'm going report that LATE doesn't
work correctly on Linux.

I use Ubuntu Mate 15.10 64-bit + Lazarus 1.6 FPC 3.0.0 + LAMW 0.7 rev
426. My phone is Android 5.0 Intel 64-bit device. My computer is
cross-compiled properly to build Android apks for both i386 and ARMv7A
targets. I'm sure because I have tested the results, they work
correctly. I don't have ARM device but simple test program is running
correctly tested using adb install on ARM Android Virtual Devices. No
problem so far if I compile the code manually and build the apk using
build-debug.sh script.

But if I use LATE, the result was different. Some seconds after I
pressed the "Build Android Apk" button on LATE, I got the message
"BUILD SUCCESSFUL". But if I check the libs folder, nothing was
produced. My guess is LATE fails to properly configure settings on
Linux. I now am able to produce Android i386, ARMv7A, even fat binary
apks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_binary), so I share my
settings hope it can help to fix this issue.

Code: Pascal  [Select][+][-]window.onload = function(){var x1 =
document.getElementById("main_content_section"); if (x1) { var x =
document.getElementsByClassName("geshi");for (var i = 0; i To make
switching settings easier, I use Build Modes.Installed NDK: 11cMin
SDK: 15Target SDK: 19NDK Platform: 21My home folder:
/home/handokoAndroid folder: /home/handoko/AndroidAndroid NDK folder:
/home/handoko/Android/android-ndk-r11cAndroid SDK folder:
/home/handoko/Android/android-sdk-linuxLAMW instalation folder:
/home/handoko/Android/lazandroidmodulewizard.gitNDK symlink :
/home/handoko/Android/sdkSDK symlink: /home/handoko/Android/ndkLAMW
symlink: /home/handoko/Android/lazandroidmodulewizard
My setting for Android ARMv7A:
Code: Pascal  [Select][+][-]window.onload = function(){var x1 =
document.getElementById("main_content_section"); if (x1) { var x =
document.getElementsByClassName("geshi");for (var i = 0; i Libraries
(-Fl): /home/handoko/Android/ndk/platforms/android-21/arch-
arm/usr/lib/Target file name (-o): ../libs/armeabi/libcontrolsTarget
OS (-T): AndroidTarget CPU family (-P): armCustom Options: -Xd -CfSoft
-CpARMV7A -XParm-linux-androideabi-
-FD/home/handoko/Android/ndk/toolchains/arm-linux-
androideabi-4.6/prebuilt/linux-x86/bin
My setting for Android i386:
Code: Pascal  [Select][+][-]window.onload = function(){var x1 =
document.getElementById("main_content_section"); if (x1) { var x =
document.getElementsByClassName("geshi");for (var i = 0; i Libraries
(-Fl):
/home/handoko/Android/ndk/platforms/android-21/arch-x86/usr/lib/Target
file name (-o): ../libs/x86/libcontrolsTarget OS (-T): AndroidTarget
CPU family (-P): i386Custom Options: -Xd -XPi686-linux-android- -FD/ho
me/handoko/Android/ndk/toolchains/x86-4.9/prebuilt/linux-x86_64/bin
It will be glad to see LATE is working correctly on Linux. And hope
this info I share can be useful.

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jmpessoa · 2016-07-19 15:12

Hello Handoko!

Yes, the LATE need some fixes!

I will do apply yours suggestions!

Thank you!