[vtkusers] Building VTK for Android

[Ken Martin]

Glad you got it working!

Google changed their build process and VTK's build process needs to be
updated to reflect it.

On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 8:39 AM, Alexander Novinskiy <
alexander.novinskiy at gmail.com> wrote:

> I managed to solved the problem as follows:
>
> I downloaded android command line tools from the official Android Studio
> web site as an archive.
>
> The archive should be extracted into a folder “tools” which should be
> placed into android sdk directory.
>
> The android sdk directory will probably already contain a folder “tools”.
>
> One should substitute the default android sdk “tools” with the android
> command line tools downloaded as a standalone package.
>
> The reason for this is that “tools/android” tool is deprecated in modern
> Android Studio distributions and doesn’t work as it used to.
>
> I guess this issue should be considered by developers of VTK in order to
> ged rid of difficulties on the user side since Google doesn’t distribute
> proper android command line tools with Android Studio any more.
>
> On 12. Apr 2017, at 16:21, Alexander Novinskiy <
> alexander.novinskiy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear VTK users ,
>
> When building VTK v7.1 on my Mac if came across the following problem.
>
> On the configuration phase I chose building for Android and pointed out
> the location of the “android” tool as was demanded during the VTK build
> configuration process.
>
> When ran “make” command my VTK build failed on building NativeVTK with the
> following message:
>
> Scanning dependencies of target NativeVTK
> [100%] Building CXX object Examples/Android/NativeVTK/
> jni/CMakeFiles/NativeVTK.dir/main.cxx.o
> [100%] Building C object Examples/Android/NativeVTK/
> jni/CMakeFiles/NativeVTK.dir/Users/alex/Library/Android/
> sdk/ndk-bundle/sources/android/native_app_glue/android_native_app_glue.c.o
> [100%] Linking CXX shared library ../libs/armeabi/libNativeVTK.so
> [100%] Built target NativeVTK
> Scanning dependencies of target NativeVTK-ant-configure
> *************************************************************************
> The "android" command is deprecated.
> For manual SDK, AVD, and project management, please use Android Studio.
> For command-line tools, use tools/bin/sdkmanager and tools/bin/avdmanager
> *************************************************************************
> Invalid or unsupported command "update project --name NativeVTK --path
> /Users/alex/Development/GameDev/KitWare/VTK/Examples/Android/NativeVTK
> --target android-21"
>
> Supported commands are:
> android list target
> android list avd
> android list device
> android create avd
> android move avd
> android delete avd
> android list sdk
> android update sdk
> make[5]: *** [Examples/Android/NativeVTK/CMakeFiles/NativeVTK-ant-configure]
> Error 2
> make[4]: *** [Examples/Android/NativeVTK/CMakeFiles/NativeVTK-ant-configure.dir/all]
> Error 2
> make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[2]: *** [CMakeExternals/Prefix/vtk-android-21-armeabi/src/vtk-
> android-stamp/vtk-android-build] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/vtk-android.dir/all] Error 2
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
>
> Can anyone give me a hint about getting around this problem?
>
> With kind regards,
>
> Alexander Novinskiy.
>
>
>
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