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Explanation: Add a linker flag for the upcoming 16 KB page support in Android, generate an Android CMake toolchain file that can be used to cross-compile repos like cmark and Testing, and add a build flag that makes it easy to build cross-compilation toolchains, by disabling the cross-compilation of all host tools and macros for listed --cross-compile-hosts, leaving only the Swift runtime libraries in a cross-compilation SDK.

Scope: Build changes that either only affect Android or have to be explicitly enabled with a new build-script flag

Issue: #80788

Original PR: #81596, single supporting change from #81386, #83260, #83422

Risk: Very low, only affects Android

Testing: Passed CI and we're using these patches in preliminary builds of an official Android CI job, which uses these changes to pass the full compiler validation suite and produce an Android SDK bundle

Reviewer: @edymtt

The Swift core team tasked the Swift on Android workgroup with putting together an official 6.2 Android CI job, so @marcprux and I have been piecing together a pull for that, swiftlang/swift-docker#467, and these are some of the last trunk patches we had to backport to 6.2.

marcprux and others added 3 commits August 2, 2025 19:37
Android 15+ requires that native libraries be compiled with a linker
flag to support 16 KB page sizes. See:
https://developer.android.com/guide/practices/page-sizes#compile-r26-lower
…` from fcc0389,

specifically the change that makes the following possible on linux:

    "* under Linux, do not cross compile LLVM when building for the host
     architecture -- that will ensure that the compiler-rt build will use
    the just built compiler and not the system one (which may not be
    new enough for this purpose);"
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This new flag makes it easy to build Swift cross-compilation toolchains, by
disabling cross-compilation of all host tools, like the Swift compiler and
various macros, building on prior pulls swiftlang#38441 and swiftlang#82163.

Also, add two class methods to the Testing macros product so it works with swiftlang#83260.
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