ndk-build: undefined reference to .. errors when statically linking to libxml.a

Question

I get a lot of undefined reference to ... errors when I compile my single c++ source-file using the ndk-build tool. For the record I use NDK r6 on a linux host system.

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Answer 1

Add the line

LOCAL_ALLOW_UNDEFINED_SYMBOLS := true

to the Android.mk file and it should work. As explained in the ndk doc, it is because the ndk performs a debug checking even for avoiding runtime linking error and for some motivations it doesn't find the correct references in a pre-built library. Hope it coulds help.