Android Studio: Native build fails after and upgrade

[pfedor]

Hi all. I just foolishly upgraded Android Studio and gradle, and now I cannot build my game. The error message is:

Build command failed.
Error while executing process /home/pfedor/Android/Sdk/ndk-bundle/ndk-build with arguments {NDK_PROJECT_PATH=null APP_BUILD_SCRIPT=/home/pfedor/hervor/Hervor/proj.android/app/jni/Android.mk NDK_APPLICATION_MK=/home/pfedor/hervor/Hervor/proj.android/app/jni/Application.mk APP_ABI=armeabi-v7a NDK_ALL_ABIS=armeabi-v7a NDK_DEBUG=1 APP_PLATFORM=android-16 NDK_OUT=/home/pfedor/hervor/Hervor/proj.android/app/build/intermediates/ndkBuild/debug/obj NDK_LIBS_OUT=/home/pfedor/hervor/Hervor/proj.android/app/build/intermediates/ndkBuild/debug/lib NDK_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION=clang -j8 NDK_MODULE_PATH=/home/pfedor/hervor/Hervor/cocos2d:/home/pfedor/hervor/Hervor/cocos2d/cocos:/home/pfedor/hervor/Hervor/cocos2d/external NDK_DEBUG=1 MyGame}

make: *** No rule to make target `MyGame'.  Stop.

My Android.mk file (which worked perfectly before the upgrade):

LOCAL_PATH := $(call my-dir)

include $(CLEAR_VARS)

LOCAL_MODULE := MyGame_shared

LOCAL_MODULE_FILENAME := libMyGame

FILE_LIST := $(wildcard $(LOCAL_PATH)/../../../../source/*.cc)
SHAPES_CODEGEN := $(wildcard $(LOCAL_PATH)/../../../../shapes/codegen/*.cc)
LOCAL_SRC_FILES := $(LOCAL_PATH)/hellocpp/main.cpp \
                   $(LOCAL_PATH)/../../../Classes/AppDelegate.cpp \
                   $(LOCAL_PATH)/../../../Classes/HelloWorldScene.cpp \
                   $(FILE_LIST:$(LOCAL_PATH)/%=%) \
                   $(SHAPES_CODEGEN:$(LOCAL_PATH)/%=%)

LOCAL_C_INCLUDES := $(LOCAL_PATH)/../../../Classes

# _COCOS_HEADER_ANDROID_BEGIN
# _COCOS_HEADER_ANDROID_END


LOCAL_STATIC_LIBRARIES := cc_static

# _COCOS_LIB_ANDROID_BEGIN
# _COCOS_LIB_ANDROID_END

include $(BUILD_SHARED_LIBRARY)

$(call import-module, cocos)

# _COCOS_LIB_IMPORT_ANDROID_BEGIN
# _COCOS_LIB_IMPORT_ANDROID_END

(in /proj.android/gradle.properties, I’m setting PROP_BUILD_TYPE=ndk-build)

The project is based off of the default cocos2d-x template. My Android Studio version now is 3.5, Android Gradle Plugin version 3.5.0, Gradle version 5.4.1.

I realize the way go to about it is going to be a lot of poking and trial and error, but posting this in the hope that someone has had the same problem. Thank you!

Aleksander

[R101]

From experience, that error is almost expected every time we upgrade Android Studio. First thing to try is to do a clean, then go into the proj.android folder, and manually delete all the generated build files. You can easily tell which ones they are if you compare it to a newly generated project.

If the error persists, enable more verbose output from the gradle build process, and it should help you track down the cause of the error.

[bluewind00]

I also tried updating Android Studio 3.5.
I tried to build the project cleanly,
The build will fail just like you.

I don’t want to spend time on this issue, so I’ll uninstall 3.5.
Download and install 3.4 from the archive.

Android Studio download archives  |  Android Developers

[hexerror]

I’m expirienced same troubles. Swithing to cmake instead of ndk-build solved compiling error. But yes, ndk-build dont work anymore after last android studio upgrade.

[CAPONE]

No need downgrade android studio itself. Temporary solution is downgrade gradle plugin to 5.1.1

Go to build.gradle on your proj.android-studio (or proj.android) find line

dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.5.0'

and change it to

dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.4.1'

then go to gradle/wrapper find line

distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-5.4.1-all.zip

and change it to

distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-5.1.1-all.zip

Sync project and try build again.

[piotrros]

Thanks, fix works great.

[quangvt]

Thanks @CAPONE It’s worked for me.

[pfedor]

I only now got the chance to try it out and I want to join in with the thanks–@CAPONE it worked for me too thank you!

[CAPONE]

you can just mark my reply as solution