C++ is a bit of a minefield on Android. Much functionality still doesn't work, and Android can't decide on which C++ standard library to use, so it provides 3 different ones, all of which are incompatible with each other. (It looks like clang is coming too which will add a new compiler and a 4th standard library.)
As middleware, SDL might be distributed as a binary and intermixed with other projects already using C++. If C++ is intermixed in a bad way, bad things will happen. Removing dependencies on C++ will avoid this problem and downstream users won't have to worry/care.
Isaac Burns
I wanted to suggest a few changes I've found that help the Android build. By adding LOCAL_EXPORT_C_INCLUDES to the Android.mk file, anything that references the SDL Android project will inherit the include paths.
Philipp Wiesemann 2012-09-22 05:26:11 PDT
currently SDL (HG) does not implement the power management functionality of
SDL_GetPowerInfo() for Android.
I attached a patch which tries to implement this functionality (JNI only, API
5). It supports plugged state and battery percent return values but not
remaining seconds (which are not available on Android).
I'm playing with SDL on android, and did notice a problem in latest sources ( branch "default" ) :
SDL/src/render/opengles/SDL_glesfuncs.h:10: error: 'glDrawTexiOES' undeclared (first use in this function)
SDL/src/render/opengles/SDL_glesfuncs.h:10: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
If it can help you win some time here is the fix, applied to the "Android.mk" file :
LOCAL_CFLAGS += -D GL_GLEXT_PROTOTYPES
