Question

I have a problem configuring my system for using the NDK over Windows. Those are the step I made:

• Installed cygwin.
• Downloaded the NDK
• Added to windows path:
  • path to: cygwin\bin
  • path to sdk\tools
  • path to sdk\platform-tools
  • path to ndk
• Installed CDT plugin for eclipse

Then in Eclipse I opened the project properties and in the build command I put “ndk-build”. And the console shows that error:

Cannot run program "ndk-build": Launching failed             C/C++ Problem

I suppose that is because is trying to execute the ndk-build file over the windows cmd, without using the cygwin. How can I solve that?

Note: if I open a cygwin bash and type ndk-build -version it returns the version info but if I try to execute it in the standard cmd console it returns

'ndkbuild' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Answer 1

You need to prepend “bash” before the path to ndk-build in the project properties. So if you installed your NDK on C:\ put

bash C:\android-ndk-r6\ndk-build

in the build command field.