Android NDK UnsatisfiedLinkError: “dlopen failed: empty/missing DT_HASH”

Question

I am tracking down crashes with our Android application (which uses the NDK to load a C++ library) using a crash reporting service. A small number of users are experiencing the

Answer 1

If you're a third party building .so libraries for others to use, setting -Wl,--hash-style=both seems like the best idea. That gets you the faster loading of the Gnu-style hash and the backwards compatibility of the SysV hash.