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    SGaist
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    Out of curiosity, why do you need to compile your own version of Qt for Android ?

    Also which version of Qt are you trying to build ?

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      Basically taking and old c++ application that has QT and OSG dependencies and making it run on an android. I've searched around the web and found this which requires Mingw or ninja, so we don't have to re-make all of the cmakeLists.txt's. So it "made sense" to stop building, successfully i might add, OSG and QT with MSVS 2014 compiler, with cmake, and compile everything with mingw.

      So i need to compile QT and OSG together because we're using cmake (currently to build everything) and when it's all said and done i need all of my cmakeLists to work with the android NDK to build. Like i said i dont really know what all i'm doing so correct me where i'm wrong or ignorant.

      At the end of the day i want an APK from my c++ application that currently targets UNIX and Windows.

      Sorry for all the redundancy.

      environment:
      building qt 5.5 or newest stuff in git repo targeting android 21
      windows 7 pro sp1, 64-bit
      i5-2400
      8GB ram

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        Qt 5 is already well supported by CMake and there's also the Android package that provides a ready to use Qt for Android.

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          So i'm not using QT creator just to be clear;

          However you're saying i won't/don't need to compile qt for android to do what i'm trying to do?

          i should follow this example? and presumably i'll be able to group all of my Open scene graph and c++ dependencies with the androiddeployqt dev tool?

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            Qt Creator does simplify your life a lot to handle the projects but it's by no mean mandatory even for Android development.

            You would only end up with a Qt version similar to the one provided by the Qt Android package.

            Since I don't know what your software is made of, I can't comment on how would androiddeployqt would work. But it should be its primary goal yes.

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              So really what i wanted was .a or .so for all of the libraries for OSG and QT 5.5 and from the looks of it androiddeployqt would just take the place of the android NDK which is not want i wanted. Anyway, thanks for trying. :)

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                So you expected some kind of "super-lib" made of all Qt modules ?

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                  I expected it to add another perspective on how to do something, specifically creating the static and shared libraries, nothing else. Plus i don't know alot about the field so i'm game for learning anything that might help :).

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                    There are not many perspectives:

                    • shared libraries
                    • static libraries
                    • mix of both

                    In the end your package has to contain the dependencies of your application. What you might not see is that Android is a special case in the sense that you don't build an executable like you would for OS X or any other desktop environment.

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                      Yah, i know what i must do, or at least think i do, but i had a LOT of difficulties building the application for a windows environment, so i knew i would run into a lot of issues when attempting to build the application targeting android os.

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                          So i changed versions of MinGW and it seems to have worked, if anyone else runs into my issue. Apparently the version of MinGW i was linked to was incomplete, i assume this was an error on my part. Thread is free to be closed imho. Thanks for the help again :)

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                            Glad you found out and thanks for sharing !

                            You can mark it yourself :) For that you have to first convert it to a question and then mark it as solved using the "Topic Tool" button.

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