can't compile in cygwin with ndkR8d

[moritz-wundke]

can't compile in cygwin with ndkR8d

[wespaugh]

I'm running into the same issue. I 'fixed' the problem by just redefining $PATH to not include anything with spaces (basically just /usr/bin and /usr/lib/bin). Doing that, as well as correcting the CXXFLAGS paths to point to the right locations, as well as changing the definition for the platform folder from windows-x86 to windows, allowed build-android.sh to finish, at least.

However! When the script calls bjam , I get this error:
error: toolset gcc initialization:
error: 'provided command arm-linux-androideabi-g++' not found
error: initialized from /cygdrive/.../user-config.jam

(The script then excitedly proclaims, 'Done!', unaware that it has just exploded).

I've tried adding the path to arm-linux-androideabi-g++ that's in the desired release of the NDK (in my case official r8d, 4.6), but I get the same error. I'm not sure how or why user-config.jam needs to be modified to get bjam to know where to look for g++.

I could definitely use some direction in compiling this, if anyone has any guesses. I'll post any epiphanies I may have until then.

Update: Yep, progress: by editing user-config.jam after build-android.sh fails, I can explicitly specify the location of arm-linux-androideabi-g++, and then rerun bjam with all the options I want. still encountering other issues before boost actually builds, but it's progress.

[severly]

Has anyone made any progress getting boost to build? I got to pretty much the same point as mentioned above and am stuck with errors spitting out from a bunch of tools/build/v2/*.jam files.

[Opi44]

In my case, the easiest way was setting up an Ubuntu VM with VMware Player. It took about an hour and less pain in brain :). Just modify the platform to windows and run the script.

[severly]

Thanks for the response! Did you simply run eclipse on the VM and do all of your development there? Or did you use the VM to install the libraries in your Windows NDK directory? If so, how would one go about doing that?

[adelzhang]

e958b03 solved the issue. See #58