Linkerconfig is a program to generate linker configuration based on the runtime environment. Linkerconfig generates one or more ld.config.txt files and some other files under /linkerconfig during init. Linker will read this generated configuration file(s) to find out link relationship between libraries and executable.
TODO: explain inputs (e.g. /system/etc/public.libraries.txt, /apex/apex-info-list.xml, ..)
APEX linker configuration file can be used to add extra information while linkerconfig creates linker configuration with the APEX module.
This configuration has multiple sections, which is defined with [section_name]
and there are multiple properties for each section. Format of the property can be varied based on the section, but in usual it is list of items or assiging value to name with <property_name> = <property_value>
format. Available sections are pre-defined as below.
Extra permitted path section has section name as permitted_paths
. This section contains property as a list of items, and each item is an extra permitted path which should be added in the APEX namespace.
APEX namespace property section with section name property
sets many values for the APEX namespace. List of available properties are as below.
Property Name | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
visible | bool | Force APEX namespace to be visible from all sections if the value is true |
# This is a example APEX linker configuration # Extra permitted path section [permitted_paths] /system/${LIB} /data # Property section [properties] visible = true # EOF
TODO: a few words about the files
Check ld.config.format.md.
The file describes libraries exposed from APEXes. libnativeloader is the main consumer of this file.
# comment line jni com_android_foo libfoo_jni.so public com_android_bar libbar.so:libbaz.so
The file is line-based and each line consists of tag apex_namespace library_list
.
tag
explains what library_list
is.apex_namespace
is the namespace of the apex. Note that it is mangled like com_android_foo
for the APEX("com.android.foo").library_list
is colon-separated list of library names.tag
is jni
, library_list
is the list of JNI libraries exposed by apex_namespace
.tag
is public
, library_list
is the list of public libraries exposed by apex_namespace
. Here, public libraries are the libs listed in /system/etc/public.libraries.txt.