[guardian-dev] Native binaries in Android L: PIE!

Sat Oct 11 23:44:03 EDT 2014

Yeah, I saw that in the NDK.  Its bad.  We'll have to ship two versions of all
native binaries, since PIE support is pretty new in Android.

.hc

Nathan of Guardian wrote:
> Seems like we need to review all our cross-compiling code...
> 
> "While using native executables in our existing Android apps we observed
> that those executables were no more working with Android L. We came to
> know that Android has introduced one more security feature starting from
> Android L i.e
> Executable must be PIE (Position independent executable)."
> 
> http://vinsol.com/blog/2014/08/19/compiling-native-libraries-for-android-l/
> 

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