| <html><body><pre>Android NDK Installation |
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| Introduction: |
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| Please read docs/OVERVIEW.html to understand what the Android NDK is and is not. |
| This file gives instructions on how to properly setup your NDK. |
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| I. Requirements: |
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| The Android NDK currently requires a Linux, OS X or Windows host operating system. |
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| Windows users will need to install Cygwin 1.7 or later (http://www.cygwin.com) to |
| use the NDK. Note that running it under MSys or Cygwin 1.5 is not supported. |
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| You will need to have the Android SDK and its dependencies installed. The NDK |
| cannot generate final application packages (.apk files), only the shared library |
| files that can go into them. |
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| IMPORTANT: |
| The Android NDK can only be used to target system images using |
| the Cupcake (1.5) or later releases of the platform. |
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| This is due to subtle toolchain and ABI related changed that make |
| it incompatible with 1.0 and 1.1 system images. |
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| The NDK requires GNU Make 3.81 or later being available on your development |
| system. Earlier versions of GNU Make might work but have not been tested. |
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| You can check this by running 'make -v' from the command-line. The output |
| should look like: |
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| GNU Make 3.81 |
| Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
| ... |
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| On certain systems, GNU Make might be available through a different command like |
| 'gmake' or 'gnumake'. For these systems, replace 'make' by the appropriate command |
| when invoking the NDK build system as described in the documentation. You might |
| also want to define the GNUMAKE environment variable to point to it. |
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| The NDK also requires a Nawk or GNU Awk executable being available on your |
| development system. Note that the original 'awk' program doesn't implement |
| the 'match' and 'substr' functions used by the NDK build system. |
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| II. Preparing your installation prebuilt cross-toolchain binaries: |
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| Previous releases required you to run the 'build/host-setup.sh' script to |
| configure the NDK. However, this step has been removed in release 4 (a.k.a. r4). |
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| The auto-detection and sanity checks that were performed by the script have |
| been moved into the NDK makefiles (and are now performed each time you invoke |
| GNU Make). |
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