From 4ad62e7201e3a93f9a49fa4d70604137cb510840 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: secnotes <1321993383@qq.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 05:50:05 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add support for the cross-compiling for Android

---
 BUILDING.md | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/BUILDING.md b/BUILDING.md
index e57a1c4825..44e8b02680 100644
--- a/BUILDING.md
+++ b/BUILDING.md
@@ -30,6 +30,20 @@ cmake.exe --build build --config Release # For debug build change "Release" to "
 cmake.exe --install build
 ```
 
+**Cross-compiling for Android**
+```bash
+cmake -B build -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=$NDK_PATH/build/cmake/android.toolchain.cmake -DANDROID_NDK=$NDK_PATH -DANDROID_ABI=arm64-v8a
+cmake --build build
+```
+
+**Cross-compiling static library for arm64**
+
+```bash
+# apt-get install gcc-aarch64-linux-gnu
+cmake -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc -DCMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS=-static
+cmake --build build
+```
+
 ## Tailor Capstone to your needs.
 
 Enable and disable options in the "configure" step (first `cmake` command from above).