Trying to run some binaries from Android #116

hex-4d5a9000 · 2023-04-26T09:49:44Z

hex-4d5a9000
Apr 26, 2023

I tried to run some binaries from Android-x86_64-5.1-rc1. My host is Cygwin64 on Windows 10.
Here are some results:

Shell utilities like ls and ps run without any problem:

Unfortunately, dalvikvm64 doesn't run:

However it prints help information:

Here are some tips if you want to achieve the same result:

Compile and install blink in Cygwin. (make install)
Download android-x86_64-5.1-rc1.img.
Create a folder named system in your Cygwin installation folder (e.g. C:\cygwin64\system).
Run fsutil.exe file SetCaseSensitiveInfo C:\cygwin64\system. This will make path handling in the folder to be case sensitive, so that two files from the image with only case diffierece on their names won't overwrite each other when extracted.
Extract system.sfs in android-x86_64-5.1-rc1.img to the system folder (I used 7-zip for this step).
Set PATH environment variable. Run export PATH=/sbin:/system/sbin:/system/bin:/system/xbin:/vendor/bin:/vendor/xbin:/sbin:/system/sbin:/system/bin:/system/xbin:/vendor/bin:/vendor/xbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH under Cygwin.
You are ready to go! Just run blink sh.