Is it possible to compress a dynamically linked armeabi-v7a executable with UPX?
I'm building using ndk-build (r20b) and UPX always throws an UnknownExecutableFormatException exception unless I add APP_LDFLAGS += -static to my module Android.mk. This, however, is not something I can do as other parts of my code (an HTTP client) use getaddrinfo and gethostbyname which require libc to be dynamically linked and result in segmentation faults if I link statically. I'm building without -fPIE.
I saw a few threads online that discuss dynamically linked executable compression for Windows .exe files, however, I wasn't able to find anything on this when it comes to an armeabi-v7a executable.
Is this even possible? If not, please suggest another binary packer that can do this, if there exists one.
