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Areeb gillani
Areeb gillani

Reputation: 21

Compiling VLC android ubuntu

I am having trouble in compiling VLC on Ubuntu. I followed this tutorial https://wiki.videolan.org/AndroidCompile/ Everything was going smooth when This issue came up when I tried to run the app from the android studio

Error:Execution failed for task ':libvlc:buildDebugARMv5'. Process 'command './compile-libvlc.sh'' finished with non-zero exit value 1

Along with a message that

You need the NDKv10 or later

My NDK version is android-ndk-r10e which the latest one. My NDK and SDK paths are set in the environment as I have checked them using echo.

If I try to compile from terminal

areeb@areeb:~/android$ sh compile.sh -a armeabi-v7a
VLC source found
Configuring
You need the NDKv10 or later
areeb@areeb:~/android$

Hope anyone have faced this and have surpassed this as well. Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2807

Answers (3)

Sarath Krrish
Sarath Krrish

Reputation: 221

If you are already having latest version but it is showing the message like

You need the NDKv11 or later

You can go to file compile-libvlc.sh.Change from

REL=$(grep -o '^Pkg.Revision.[0-9].' $ANDROID_NDK/source.properties |cut -d " " -f 3 | cut -d "." -f 1) case "$REL" in 11)

to

REL=$(grep -o '^Pkg.Revision.[0-9].' $ANDROID_NDK/source.properties |cut -d " " -f 3 | cut -d "." -f 1) case "$REL" in 12)

The only change is 11* to 12*

That actually solved my problem.If you fear that you will get any issues with new version,download whatever the version it is asked for.Here it is

v11

Upvotes: 1

Areeb gillani
Areeb gillani

Reputation: 21

I have managed to solve the problem. The issue is that if we are following the VLC android compile tutorial when they ask to set the ANDROID_NDK the line is written something like

export ANDROID_NDK=/path/to/android-ndk

Which means you have to export like

export ANDROID_NDK=$HOME/path/to/android-ndk

If you do this way everything will go fine.

Upvotes: 2

Paul Freez
Paul Freez

Reputation: 1069

I run into this problem too. In my case nothing helped me (I checked my SDK/NDK pathes and even checked that my NDK/SDK aren't corrupted by checking MD5), so I decided to modify compile.sh this way:

# try to detect NDK version
#EL=$(grep -o '^r[0-9]*.*' $ANDROID_NDK/RELEASE.TXT 2>/dev/null|cut -b2-)
#case "$REL" in
#    10*)
    if [ "${HAVE_64}" = 1 ];then
        ANDROID_API=android-21
        GCCVER=4.9
    else
        ANDROID_API=android-9
        GCCVER=4.8
    fi
#    ;;
#    *)
#        echo "You need the NDKv10 or later"
#        exit 1
#    ;;
#esac

As you can see, I just commented that check for a NDK version (on line ~280). I know that this is not the good way at all, but at least I was able to run the build.

Upvotes: 1

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