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Asked: 2026-05-19T22:41:46+00:00

I am trying to make ndk-build to work within Cygwin on windows. As per

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I am trying to make ndk-build to work within Cygwin on windows. As per the NDK documentation (specifically INSTALL.htm), “The NDK requires GNU Make 3.81 or later being available on your development.”

I have Gnu Make installed on my computer.

So far, so good.

Within Cygwin bash, I cd over to the android NDK root directory. Now when I type in the following command (without parameters right now, just to see if the command works):

$./ndk-build
ERROR: Cannot find ‘make’ program. Please install Cygwin make package or define the GNUMAKE variable to point to it.

So I try to set the GNUMAKE variable, but no luck:

$export GNUMAKE=’/cygdrive/c\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin’
ERROR: Your GNUMAKE variable is defined to an invalid name: /cygdrive/c\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin
Please fix it to point to a valid make executable (e.g. usr/bin/make)

I even tried setting it to usr/bin/make as it suggests, but same invalid name error.

Anyone, knows how to resolve this?

I’m using Windows 7, NDK r5, Cygwin 1.7.1

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  1. Editorial Team

    I had an issue with GNUMake when putting the ndk in a folder with a space in it (I originally put it in the program files directory). I moved everything to C:/android/android-ndk and C:/android/android-sdk and updated my path settings to include these directories.

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