[mono-android] 4.2.3 native library DllNotFoundException!

[Jonathan Pryor]

On Jun 20, 2012, at 4:25 AM, Francesco Colombo wrote:
> In your opinion, is there any performance loss running armeabi rutime over an v7a device? I'm asking this because I have two scenario now:

Potentially lots. :-)

1. The armeabi runtime explicitly disables SMP support (because ARMv5 lacks the needed instructions). Have a multi-core device? Your app is tied to a single core.
2. The armeabi-v7a runtime adds hardware FPU support.

Want SMP support? You need armeabi-v7a. Want decent floating-point performance? You need armeabi-v7a.

The better question is how long should you support armeabi, given that most (all?) newer devices are armeabi-v7a (and have been for 2+ years). We're considering making armeabi-v7a the default Release ABI in Mono for Android 4.4.

That said, after thinking about this some more we could change our Debug build logic to only add x86/libmonodroid.so and leave the armeabi/armeabi-v7a logic as 4.2.2 had it. We should be able to do this for 4.2.4.

 - Jon