I have been going over the "dev scripts" in the $NDK/build/tools directory of the Android NDK and have been modifying them to build host/build tool-chains that run on ARM instead of x86 or x86_64. For instance:
edge-case@Flubber:/opt/ndk/toolchains/arm-linux-androideabi-4.8/prebuilt
/linux-x86/bin$ file arm-linux-androideabi-gcc
arm-linux-androideabi-gcc: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386,
version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for
GNU/Linux 2.6.8, stripped
I want it to be for ARM not Intel 80386 or any Intel derivative, unless its an Intel ARM (I think there are/was Strongarm? can't recall atm ;p).
If not, I guess I can do it myself. Almost to the point where I think I can compile the gcc tools for arm without the scripts stopping me first. I can't really cross compile anything on my old a$$ HP right now, it only has 512MB of ram and my phone has 4x that with a dual core processor where as my HP is but one core and 10+ years old. I'm basically SOL after a borked Windows install on a partition of my Laptop (Just to play Neverwinter), which had 8 gigs of ram and a 2.6 ghz dual core 64 bit cpu, screwed up my BIOS, not sure what MS was doing with their dirty fingers all over my BIOS, but what ever, I never want to see a start menu for the rest of my life. I've borked at least 20 *nix based installs and never was my computer left inoperable, atm I can't even get into my BIOS to change anything, just a black screen no matter what I do.
Anyways, I have tried Google'ing stuff like "Android NDK for arm" or "Android NDK run on arm" but can't find anything. The Ubuntu repos have the arm-linux-androideabi-* tools, but likewise, for x86 and x86_64 only. I don't need a cross compiler to compile native stuff, I need a native compiler to compile native stuff, hope that makes sense.
Has this already been accomplished? It would save me some time, say if I could look over their build scripts and maybe incorporate them into the r9d revisions.
