<![CDATA[error trying to build for Android]]>Hi all -

Several months ago, I (successfully) built an app for Android. (It also runs on Windows, and eventually Linux.) I thought I kept complete notes on the steps necessary to do this, but I must have left something out, because I'm trying to create a new project for Android, and I'm getting this error when I try to build:

:-1: error: Cannot find application binary in build dir C:/Users/Michael.Zimmers/Qt_projects/build-colors-Android_Qt_6_5_2_Clang_arm64_v8a-Release/android-build//libs/arm64-v8a/libappcolors_arm64-v8a.so.

I guess I'm curious why the build would be looking for a .so file named after my project when it hasn't built anything yet.

Thanks for any enlightenment...

]]>https://forum.qt.io/topic/148861/error-trying-to-build-for-androidRSS for NodeWed, 14 Oct 2026 20:47:00 GMTFri, 01 Sep 2023 19:19:09 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to error trying to build for Android on Sat, 02 Sep 2023 16:12:46 GMT]]>Well, for lack of anything else to try, I closed the project, manually deleted the build folders and my CMakeLists.txt.user file, and reconfigured. Now it works.

Deus ex machina...

]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/771295https://forum.qt.io/post/771295Sat, 02 Sep 2023 16:12:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to error trying to build for Android on Fri, 01 Sep 2023 21:36:26 GMT]]>@JoeCFD said in error trying to build for Android:

Any other error or warning messages?

No. And this message shows up immediately upon starting a build.

I went through my first project makefile and didn't find much that had to do with Android; what I did find, I replicated in my new project:

set( ANDROID_PACKAGE_SOURCE_DIR ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/android CACHE INTERNAL "" )
set_property(TARGET appcolors APPEND PROPERTY
    QT_ANDROID_PACKAGE_SOURCE_DIR ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}
)

So...I'm not really sure what to try next...

]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/771233https://forum.qt.io/post/771233Fri, 01 Sep 2023 21:36:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to error trying to build for Android on Fri, 01 Sep 2023 19:45:18 GMT]]>@mzimmers said in error trying to build for Android:

libappcolors_arm64-v8a.so

I guess you build your app as .so(not executable) for Android. That dir is where your app so is located. If it is not found, that means your build failed.

Any other error or warning messages?

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