Thanks for replying, Dimiter. It actually now builds (with beta 10) with or without specifying TARGET=arm. It builds a static lib and that's what I want so i'm not sure about your suggestion of "TARGET_SONAME=.." I do get a warning of "unknown EABI object attribute 44" that I don't know if it's serious, I wont be able to verify the resulting lib for a while to find out (to link the lib and try it running in a project) . ==== Building LuaJIT 2.0.0-beta10 ==== make -C src AR libluajit.a LINK luajit /Users/nika/dev/android-ndk-r8b/toolchains/arm-linux-androideabi-4.4.3/prebuilt/darwin-x86/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-androideabi/4.4.3/../../../../arm-linux-androideabi/bin/ld: Warning: /Users/nika/dev/android-ndk-r8b/platforms/android-8/arch-arm/usr/lib/crtend_android.o: Unknown EABI object attribute 44 OK Successfully built LuaJIT ==== Successfully built LuaJIT 2.0.0-beta10 ==== On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Dimiter 'malkia' Stanev <malkia@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > On 9/13/2012 4:03 PM, Nika Kolomentseva wrote: > >> >> Please advise about building android LuaJit on mac or tips on resolving >> pseudo-op: `.private_extern' assembler errors in general. >> >> I am on Mac and following instruction to complie LuaJit2 in doc/install >> or >> http://luajit.org/install.**html#android<http://luajit.org/install.html#android>: >> >> The only change I made is to change linux-x86 to darwin-x86 to get NDK >> cross compiler. I also added TARGET_SYS=Linux (I tried with and without) >> per installation notes: “Whenever the host OS and the target OS differ, you >> need to specify TARGET_SYS or you'll get assembler or linker errors…” >> >> So my build script looks like this: >> >> NDK=$ANDROID_NDK >> >> NDKABI=8 >> >> NDKVER=$NDK/toolchains/arm-**linux-androideabi-4.4.3 >> >> NDKP=$NDKVER/prebuilt/darwin-**x86/bin/arm-linux-androideabi- >> >> NDKF="--sysroot $NDK/platforms/android-$**NDKABI/arch-arm" >> >> make HOST_CC="gcc -m32" CROSS=$NDKP TARGET_SYS=Linux TARGET_FLAGS="$NDKF"" >> >> My $ANDROID_NDK points to r8b Android NDK. But I also tried r8 and r7, >> and I tried gcc 4.6 with r8b. In all cases I get similar errors: >> >> >> ==== Building LuaJIT 2.0.0-beta9 ==== >> >> make -C src >> >> ASM lj_vm.o >> >> lj_vm.s: Assembler messages: >> >> lj_vm.s:5: Error: unknown pseudo-op: `.private_extern' >> >> lj_vm.s:8: Error: unknown pseudo-op: `.private_extern' >> >> lj_vm.s:25: Error: unknown pseudo-op: `.private_extern' >> >> … >> >> >> > Hi Nika, > > I think you are missing TARGET=arm and maybe also > TARGET_SONAME=libluajit.so > > Thanks, > Dimiter 'malkia' Stanev. > > >