Compile libpcap using Android NDK
android, android-ndk, compilation, libpcap, linux
Solution
Finally!!
After getting annoyed by the non existing headers in and stuff like that, I found this question, that pointed to a SVN repo (http://sourceforge.net/p/prueba-android/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/jni/) with a libpcap that compiled!
If someone else wants additional details on how my Android.mk and directory structure looks like, please add a comment and I'll extend this answer.
Problem
I've been doing a lot of attempts to get `libpcap` compiled for Android, and I don't see any pattern or any progress worth writing down. I have a very simple sniffer (that works fine in a MIPS linux) that uses libpcap, so I thought to myself oh, ok... no biggie... I'll just compile libpcap for Android (in the end, Android is just a Linux)... and here's where the problems started. I have no idea on how to compile libpcap using `ndk-build` and the `Android.mk` and all that infrastructure. I have the Android NDK in a directory. That NDK has the toolchains built (I have a lot of directories under `~/Documents/Projects/Android_NDK/toolchains/` ) but none of the toolchains has `libpcap` available. I've tried with two different libpcap version or... branches: The Android one, which is the one I'd like to use, https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/libpcap/ and the regular one: http://www.tcpdump.org/release/libpcap-1.5.3.tar.gz All tries I've done have been very unsuccessful. I've seen the question Android NDK: Link using a pre-compiled static library which is similar, but I'm still getting various errors. I have downloaded those pcap libraries to their own directories. Maybe is that the problem? Do I need to put the Android libpcap in some directory within the NDK root directory and re-create the toolchains? I'm using NDK-r9 on a MacOSX 10.9.2 64bit.