On 12/28/2015 2:12 PM, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > I'm considering using Cygwin as a build system for android. I'm > totally new at this. What would I need that Cygwin itself does not > provide? I know I need an Android SDK and an Android NDK (I have to > build/link C/C++ with Java too). I assume that I will need Oracle > Java. > > Is this doable? I'm trying to build android on Mac and Linux as > preferable alternates.
Nvidia's TADP used to ship Cygwin (and mess up an existing Cygwin installation) to use some basic Unix commands, and the shell. I think they stopped installing and using Cygwin. Probably they just ship the commands, and maybe a shell, ported to native Windows. The main part of that Android development environment is Eclipse customized with SDK, NDK, and a few other things. That answers the "is doable?" question. With or without Cygwin its doable, its just the user's preference (a little bit Unix-like, or not... anyway you'll configure Eclipse one way or another). -- René Berber -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple