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

As others had mentioned,

LOCAL_ALLOW_UNDEFINED_SYMBOLS := true

will not work at run time. Have a look at this:

https://github.com/MysticTreeGames/Boost-for-Android

I ran into the same problem with boost (I use a custom 1.42 version).

Using the brute force method to configure gnustdc++ fixed my issue. The important thing is to link against -lgnustl_static (or whatever stl lib you use) after your libraries.