Android SDK on a 64-bit linux machine

Question

Is it possible to develop using the Android SDK on a 64-bit linux machine. The available SDK downloads seem to be just for 32-bit versions of Linux.

Answer 1

A slight twist on the above Q and A: I'm running Debian Wheezy (7.0) on a 64-bit System76 laptop, I had already enabled multiarch and most of the native Android tools seemed to run fine...until I tried building an app. The build failed because one of the resource utilities needed (a 32-bit) libz.so.1.

apt-get install lib32z1

...fixed it for me.

Answer 2

For openSUSE you can install the 32bit pattern package

su zypper install -t pattern 32bit

Answer 3

For Debian Wheezy you have to enable multiarch and then install the dependent libraries as listed in the other answers or as needed by the binaries from the tools or platform-tools directory:

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libc6:i386

For further libs check with ldd for referenced .so-files.

platform-tools$ ldd adb                       
    linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xf77bb000)
    librt.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0xf779b000)
    libncurses.so.5 => not found
    libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xf7781000)
    libstdc++.so.6 => not found
    libm.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xf775b000)
    libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xf773e000)
    libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xf75db000)
    libdl.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xf75d6000)
    /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf77bc000)

So continue to install libncurses5:i386 and libstdc++6:i386 to be able to run

platform-tools$ ./adb 
Android Debug Bridge version 1.0.31
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