Question

Ive created a simple app to help me learn the ndk, jni, and get my c++ skills back up to par. However Im kind of stuck because Im getting some compile errors when I run ndk-build on my project from the cygwin command line. Its been a while since Ive used c++ to any extent so I know that my syntax is probably way off so if some one could help me clean this up or explain how I could do so then that would be awesome…..so heres my c++ code:

EDIT: latest code

#include <iostream>
#include <Eigen/Dense>
#include <math.h>
#include <jni.h>

using namespace Eigen;

Vector3f vec;
Vector3f vec2;
Vector3f vecRtrn;


void vecLoad(float x, float y, float z, float x2, float y2, float z2){

vec(0) = x;
vec(1) = y;
vec(2) = z;
vec2(0) = x2;
vec2(1) = y2;
vec2(2) = z2;

}

void vecAdd(Vector3f vecA, Vector3f vecB){
vecRtrn = vecA+vecB;
}

extern "C"
{
JNIEXPORT jfloatArray JNICALL Java_jnimath_act_JnimathActivity_test
(JNIEnv *env, jobject obj, jfloatArray fltarray1, jfloatArray fltarray2){

float array1[3];

jfloatArray flt1 = fltarray1;
jfloatArray flt2 = fltarray2;

//flt1 = env->GetFloatArrayElements( fltarray1,0);
//flt2 = env->GetFloatArrayElements( fltarray2,0);


vecLoad(flt1[0], flt1[1], flt1[2], flt2[0], flt2[1], flt2[2]);
vecAdd(vec, vec2);

array1[0] = vecRtrn[0];
array1[1] = vecRtrn[1];
array1[2] = vecRtrn[2];

return array1;

};
}

Now Im pretty sure Im not using the correct way to return the array back to java through jni but thats a separate problem……but please feel free to comment on that as well 😉

Heres an updated list of the last couple of build errors I have…..its definitely a lot shorter than the original list 🙂

$ /cygdrive/c/android-ndk-r7/ndk-build
Compile++ thumb  : test <= test.cpp
jni/test.cpp: In function '_jfloatArray* Java_jnimath_act_JnimathActivity_test(JNIEnv*,  _jobject*, _jfloatArray*, _jfloatArray*)':
jni/test.cpp:42: error: cannot convert '_jfloatArray' to 'float' for argument '1' to      'void vecLoad(float, float, float, float, float, float)'
jni/test.cpp:49: error: cannot convert 'float*' to '_jfloatArray*' in return
make: *** [obj/local/armeabi/objs/test/test.o] Error 1

EDIT: heres my java code……

package jnimath.act;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class JnimathActivity extends Activity {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */

public EditText x;
public EditText y;
public EditText z;

public EditText x2;
public EditText y2;
public EditText z2;

public float[] vecArray;

public TextView textView1;
public Button run;

float[] array3 = new float[3];
float[] array1 = new float[3];
  float[] array2 = new float[3];

  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);

    x = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.x);
    y = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.y);
    z = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.z);

    x2 = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.x);
    y2 = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.y);
    z2 = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.z);




    textView1 = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.textView1);
    run = (Button)findViewById(R.id.run);

    run.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener(){

        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {

            array1[0] = Float.parseFloat(x.getText().toString());
            array1[1] = Float.parseFloat(y.getText().toString());
            array1[2] = Float.parseFloat(z.getText().toString());

            array2[0] = Float.parseFloat(x2.getText().toString());
            array2[1] = Float.parseFloat(y2.getText().toString());
            array2[2] = Float.parseFloat(z2.getText().toString());
            array3 = test(array1, array2);

            String text = array3[0]+" "+array3[1]+" "+array3[2];
            textView1.setText(text);

        }

      });

  }

  public native float[] test(float[] array1, float[] array2);

  static {
    System.loadLibrary("test");
  }
}

Answer 1

As the error states, compiler does not like what you have in vecLoad. Are you sure Vector3f has correct ‘(‘ operator? I would check that first.