I think the scenario there is using dlopen(), possibly via Qt, possibly via Java, so it's a very specific scenario, not necessarily indicative of a general requirement on Android, and apparently not using build-time linking. It's quite conceivable that this issue would also exist with Qt on other platforms.
I haven't experienced this issue with Qt on any other platform (and I build and run the same stack on windows, linux, macos and ios).
Also the links posted earlier in this thread hint to the same limitation of Android, unrelated to Qt.
As I mentioned before, Meson has Android support. Some people there clearly thought about it. So I suggest you try building PostgreSQL for your Android environment using Meson and see what it produces.(*) If the output files are the same as the autoconf/make build, then I would think your scenario is nonstandard. If the output files are different, then we should check that and consider changes to get them to match.
It's of course possible that Meson is wrong, too, but then we need to have a broader analysis, because the implicit goal is to keep the two build systems for PostgreSQL consistent.
When trying to build with meson, including the patch which was provided by Andres Freud (thanks),
I am currently stuck with the following error:
Configuring pg_config_ext.h using configuration
../src/tgresql-16-685bc9fc97.clean/src/include/meson.build:12:0: ERROR: File port/android.h does not exist.
Kind regards
Matthias
(*) - This means specifically that the installation trees produced by "make install-world-bin" and "meson install" should produce exactly the same set of files (same names in the same directories, not necessarily the same contents).
