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Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2016 4:00 pm**

I have used and tested the following to build on Linux (Mint 17.3)
Hopefully it will be of some use to others and should be possible to translate to Windows, I assume same versions will work ok there.

I have installed tool versions independent of existing system installs, I use a shell script to set the needed variables.

Create folder ANDROID

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mkdir $HOME/ANDROID

Download the following packages and unzip them to the ANDROID folder
Java JDK 7u79
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/ ... 80260.html

Apache Ant 1.9.7
https://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi

Andorid NDK r12b
https://developer.android.com/ndk/downloads/index.html

Android SDK r23.0.3
https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html

love-android-sdl2
https://bitbucket.org/MartinFelis/love- ... 0.10.1.zip
or use git:

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git clone https://bitbucket.org/MartinFelis/love-android-sdl2

Run Android SDK, download and install:

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$HOME/ANDROID/android_SDK/tools/android

Android SDK Platform-tools
Android SDK Built-tools v23.03
Android 6 (API 23) SDK Platform
Android Support Repository v35

Create some symbolic links for ease of admin:

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cd $HOME/ANDROID
ln -s ./jdk1.7.0_79 java_JDK
ln -s ./android-sdk-linux android_SDK
ln -s ./android-ndk-r12b android_NDK

Set environment variables:

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export JAVA_HOME=$HOME/ANDROID/java_JDK
export ANDROID_SDK=$HOME/ANDROID/android_SDK
export ANDROID_NDK=$HOME/ANDROID/android_NDK
export ANDROID_SWT=/usr/share/java
export ANDROID_HOME=$ANDROID_SDK
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_SDK/tools:$ANDROID_NDK
export ANT=$HOME/ANDROID/apache-ant-1.9.7/bin/

Fix 4.8 - 4.9:

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cd $HOME/ANDROID/android_NDK/toolchains
ln -s ./arm-linux-androideabi-4.9 arm-linux-androideabi-4.8

Build Love SDL:

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cd $HOME/ANDROID/love-android-sdl2
$android_NDK/ndk-build --jobs 3

Build Game APK:

Create assets folder

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mkdir $HOME/ANDROID/love-android-sdl2/assets

Place love file in assets folder

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$ANT/ant debug

apk should be located at

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$HOME/ANDROID/love-android-sdl2/bin/love_android_sdl2-debug.apk

I'll test the setup with Windows and add how to generate key and create a release ask shortly.

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Reference:
https://bitbucket.org/MartinFelis/love- ... id_-_Linux
https://bitbucket.org/MartinFelis/love- ... _Packaging

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2016 6:35 pm**

Awesome sauce. I should retrieve and most my build script at some point. Its what generates the Android nightlies at builds.bobbyjones.me

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2016 8:36 pm**

I've build it on Windows. There's a bug on Makefile if the path is too long will return error msg,

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arm-linux-androideabi-g++.exe: CreateProcess: No such file or directory

According to Windows API documentation:

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The CreateProcess() MAX_PATH is 32,768 characters.

So to fix this you must extract & build the source from root directory (eg: D:\love-0.10.1-android-source ), to shorten the build path.

P.S: This bug also exist on Linux & OS X too !
OS X build bug (path too long, can't find arm-linux-androideabi-g++): https://bitbucket.org/MartinFelis/love- ... -mac-10115
Linux build bug (path too long, can't find arm-linux-androideabi-g++): https://bitbucket.org/MartinFelis/love- ... d-ndk-r11c

The steps are:

1. Download https://bitbucket.org/rude/love/downloa ... rce.tar.gz
2. Extract to root directory, eg: "D:\love-0.10.1-android-source"
3. Open Cmd Prompt and type:

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>D:
>cd D:\love-0.10.1-android-source\jni
>nkd-build -j6
>cd ..
>ant debug

That's it, all done

However there are other bugs: Not able to build target x86_64, arm64-v8a, mips, mips64

(but that's no big deal)

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love-android-sdl2 0.10.1 working build setup

love-android-sdl2 0.10.1 working build setup

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