[PROJECT][PORT] GNU CoreUtils on Android v1

alireza7991 said:

I need help of an App Developer., since I am building all of my project on my phone and I do not have access to my PC. building am App on phone is impossible (?).

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alireza7991 said:

I got some good news! :

1- I've moved to linaro gcc 4.8.2 (HF ABI)
2- I've ported Linux Utils also, it has ~90 Utils (fdisk, m4,...) then 90+103=193 !!!!!!!!!! so we will turn our Android into a powerful linux distro!
3- I've received a mail from the GNU coreutils maintainer!!!!

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Awesome, dude! Keep it up and craft a shiny app for us lazy a$$es!

Wishing you the best of luck with this, it looks like an interesting project.

Does the utils got via this port access to dns resolver of the system ?
By that I mean, with the classic busybox the tools can't solve dns name, it's very annoying. So with this method I can use wget, ping etc. without the need to give them directly the IP but the dns name ?

AWSOME project ...

I must have this in my droid ... i can't understand how to setup build-envoirment on your phone!? run on my Linux x64 easy but on phone...!!! Awsome guy YEAH!!!

this is the start ... stay with us and countinue this cool project

alireza7991 said:

I need help of an App Developer., since I am building all of my project on my phone and I do not have access to my PC. building am App on phone is impossible (?).

I got some good news! :

1- I've moved to linaro gcc 4.8.2 (HF ABI)
2- I've ported Linux Utils also, it has ~90 Utils (fdisk, m4,...) then 90+103=193 !!!!!!!!!! so we will turn our Android into a powerful linux distro!
3- I've received a mail from the GNU coreutils maintainer!!!!

To do:

1-working on Aroma Installer/Android App to let users install which utils they want.
2-Merging ls and uname utils from KlibC sources.

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First off, great work, especially if you built it all from your phone :good:
I'll be glad to help you with the app if you want (I might not be able to start working on it before this weekend though).
I'll just need you to give me the right bash commands to list all the applets and to symlink an individual applet, then I can take it from here.

I was also wondering, do you allow Rom developers to include your distribution of CoreUtils in their builds ?

PS: as @SecUpwN said, AIDE could prove useful to you for working with C/C++ (including NDK stuff) and Android app development directly on your device, it's really well made.

This looks like a great project! Congratulations to the dev! I tried flashing the zip but it exited with error 7. I'm using neatrom (derived from slimkat) 4.4.2 and cwm-touch 6.0.4.6. I'm guessing it might be related to the updater-script syntax which I heard changed recently, right? I will copy the files manually in the mean time.

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Update - by doing a manual install, everything worked fine. I'm not sure if you take feature requests at this time, but it would be nice to have grep, ping, traceroute, wget...

Yeah, I figured they weren't part of coreutils, but they are useful tools for us linux folks .
Indeed, they would be better off under an umbrella project, with coreutils as a piece of the puzzle

great work .will be much greater when it's complete hats off for your project

mad_ady said:

Yeah, I figured they weren't part of coreutils, but they are useful tools for us linux folks .
Indeed, they would be better off under an umbrella project, with coreutils as a piece of the puzzle

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It will be great add on to cu

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I'm wanting to see coreutils become more popular for android use. To be frank on the matter, busybox is great, but as stated in the OP, it is stripped down which I am becoming to learn more and more how annoying that is. So, coreutils is a must for me now. Great work.

Hi, I actually had the same idea as you and started working on porting some GNU programs over to Android. I started out because I wanted GnuPG on Android 5.0 and the one on Google Play from the Gaurdian Project wasn't compiled for PIE (Position Independent Executable) which is required as of 5.0. Anyway I got GPG and Bash compiled (those were pretty easy) and then figured I'd go further and try to port over GNU Coreutils. I ran into some trouble compiling and then saw that you've already done it.

Where I'm stuck at the moment is on lib/fseeko.c. I took a peek at your github but it doesn't I don't see any of the FILE related sources in your lib/ Were you able to get those files to compile or did you just exclude them from your build? This code is pretty cryptic with #ifdefs out the wazoo for about 10 different implementations of <stdlib.h> for various OS's. I was able to get the first few files to compile (freading.c, freadahead.c, freadptr.c) by adding "defined __ANDROID__" to the "defined __DragonFly__" branch since Android's C library is based off BSD's. I also had to remove the underscore from the fp_ variable. That worked pretty well until I got to fseeko line 73 "fp_ub._base == NULL" variable is undeclared :/

I'm cloning your git at the moment so maybe I'll try compiling that and find my answers there but anyway if I do get this working I was planning on making an installer app and posting it on Google Play to make it easy for people to be able to install these GNU CLI programs. I could actually go ahead and post GPG and Bash if people are interested since I already have working builds of those.

EDIT: I actually have more questions than answers from your git sources now... you've removed the ./configure script... and there's no makefile. How am I even supposed to build this?

Are these still pertinent for 5.0/5.0.1?

Yes, these binaries still work fine, seeing as they are static binaries.

Static binaries always work under lollipop.

It's the dynamic ones you have to make sure are pie-enabled.

I tested one of them on lollipop by the way, it worked fine.

CoreUtils 8.23 Statically Compiled for ARM

I compiled Coreutils version 8.23 statically for ARM. Will work for pre-JB and onward until Google decides they want to block static binaries lol. To my knowledge and by testing I have not personally experienced any issues with any applets. However, the disclaimer found in the OP applies to this post as well. I am sharing my compilation since it has been a very long time for any updates in this thread. Download attachment and unzip.

Here is an example on how to use the binary:

- I place coreutils at /system/bin

- I want to encode a binary called optipng as base64

The following is done:

No matter the program you use always include --coreutils-prog=

Enjoy.

Edit: Feel free to use this binary for whatever projects you have in mind. You do not even have to give me credit for compiling it. It's open to anyone.