HOWTO BUILD
cross is used for cross compiling libsignal-client.
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download new release from
https://github.com/signalapp/libsignal-client/releases -
unzip + change into directory
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cd into
javadirectory -
run
cross build --target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu --release -p libsignal-jnirun
cross build --target armv7-unknown-linux-gnueabihf --release -p libsignal-jnirun
cross build --target aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu --release -p libsignal-jnito build the library forx86-64,armv7andarm64 -
the built library will be in the
target/<architecture>/releasefolder
Why?
Building libsignal-client every time a new docker image gets released takes really long (especially for cross platform builds with docker/buildx and QEMU). Furthermore, due to this bug here (https://github.com/docker/buildx/issues/395) we would need to use an ugly workaround for that right now. As libsignal-client isn't released very often I guess it's okay to manually build a new version once in a while.