As sent to the mailing list I had a chance to compile mksh for Android today, thanks to Waldemar confirming that it works (with OpenADK's eglibc linked in statically) and CeKay's help in mastering the SDK and NDK. The posting contains all relevant information; it is virtually impossible to write an Android.mk file though.

On the other hand, I did submit a patch for Bionic (the libc) to have sys_signame[] like real BSDs, so that we could simply hard-code the appropriate CFLAGS and CPPFLAGS and let the NDK compile the mksh source *.c files (signames.inc would no longer be needed).

Maybe we'll submit mksh for inclusion somewhere, as this would be the first really usable shell. For this reason, I have uploaded a binary (gunzip(1) first) at ports/mksh-39.9.20090929-android15.tgz (MD5 64ee103453d65e947f2beb1aeb6450d2) which you can place in, for instance, /data/mksh then put a (modified, as the ls(1) and id(1) and possibly other utilities are more than reduced) dot.mkshrc from the source (CVSweb) as /data/.mkshrc and run it from adb (which, by the way, is the one responsible for some cursor keys etc. not working, as Android and mksh(1) do both fine in that regard) with # HOME=/data /data/mksh in the shell. I may post an Android specific patch for dot.mkshrc some day.

Update 10.10. — .gz → .tgz and Cygwin binary now too!