I have finally got nginx statically compiled for ARMv5 platforms (version 0.7.69).
It was difficult because linking with libz statically posed some issues and also because it needs large file system support which my toolchain did not have.
One observation: nginx doesn’t want to start without /etc/passwd and /etc/group and without strace – it was easy to spot that the error is the same unless both the files are there:
[root@arc]/usr/local/nginx/conf# nginx
[emerg]: getpwnam("nobody") failed (2: No such file or directory)
1. readelf 2.20.1.20100303 output:
[root@arc]/system/xbin# readelf -A nginx Attribute Section: aeabi File Attributes Tag_CPU_name: "XSCALE" Tag_CPU_arch: v5TE Tag_ARM_ISA_use: Yes Tag_THUMB_ISA_use: Thumb-1 Tag_ABI_PCS_wchar_t: 4 Tag_ABI_FP_denormal: Needed Tag_ABI_FP_exceptions: Needed Tag_ABI_FP_number_model: IEEE 754 Tag_ABI_align8_needed: Yes Tag_ABI_enum_size: int
2. ldd reports it as static:
[root@arc]/system/xbin# ldd nginx
not a dynamic executable
For now I can only see the error page since I did not yet configure it with PHP-CGI:
nginx on Android
The more the merrier !
aite.me
–enable-fpm
sti
very nice! have you gotten PHP to work since then? also, any chance of this working on non-rooted devices?
Compolom
give me files plese
gabin
Can you provide more detailed instruction for compling nginx under arm?
Shushant
i have successfully cross compile nginx but when ever i try to run the nginx socket operation is getting blocked can you please provide me information about what portion i need to patch
viulian
I would need more details on what that blocking means, do you have an error message ?
Shushant
well, here is the nginx binary https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B1YIxncPig-AQTRQeUpWMGhBU3M which is cross compiled with following patch https://github.com/kitech/android-nmp/blob/master/nginx-1.4.1-android.patch without (src/core/glob.c, src/core/crypt.c, src/core/md5.c, src/core/des.c) as it is not required in glibc still i am uanble to debug it with socat or strace