I am getting “Android NDK: Host ‘awk’ tool is outdated. Please define HOST_AWK to point to Gawk or Nawk !” error on latest android ndk revision 7.
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I am getting “Android NDK: Host ‘awk’ tool is outdated. Please define HOST_AWK to point to Gawk or Nawk !” error on latest android ndk revision 7.
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Solution:
Imoprtant thing to note on windows machine:
ndk revision 7 onwards, ndk source can be built without cygwin, ie..,
instead of calling ndk-build command from inside a Cygwin shell, you should call run ndk-build.cmd inside a MSDOS command window.
It works because probably ndk-build first tries to use a locally defined, but old (at least for Linux), version of awk. By renaming it, we make it unreachable by such command, so, apparently, ndk-build calls the system-wide awk.