Adding a jar file from libs/ to Android.mk
android, android-make
Solution
OK, a couple hours of googling and experimenting seems to have found the solution. Documenting it here for others to find:
The key was to
- Define `LOCAL_STATIC_JAVA_LIBRARIES` with a symbolic name for the library I want to include, e.g. `libjsch`
- Execute `CLEAR_VARS` (why?)
- Define `LOCAL_PREBUILT_STATIC_JAVA_LIBRARIES` as `libjsch:<path-to-jar-file>`
- Include `BUILD_MULTI_PREBUILT`.
(Testing showed that any symbolic name (e.g. "foo") works fine, as long as it matches in the two declarations.)
LOCAL_PATH:= $(call my-dir)
include $(CLEAR_VARS)
LOCAL_SRC_FILES := $(call all-java-files-under, src)
LOCAL_PACKAGE_NAME := MyProject
LOCAL_STATIC_JAVA_LIBRARIES := libjsch
include $(BUILD_PACKAGE)
include $(CLEAR_VARS)
LOCAL_PREBUILT_STATIC_JAVA_LIBRARIES := libjsch:libs/jsch-0.1.49.jar
include $(BUILD_MULTI_PREBUILT)
Problem
I almost found the answer in Adding a external jar reference in Android.mk but I'm still not quite there. My project contains commons-io-2.4.jar and jsch-0.1.49.jar in the libs/ directory. Everything builds beautifully in eclipse. Now I want to write an Android.mk file to build my project automatically. My Android.mk looks like this, but it's not working. ``` LOCAL_PATH:= $(call my-dir) include $(CLEAR_VARS) LOCAL_SRC_FILES := $(call all-java-files-under, src) LOCAL_PACKAGE_NAME := MyProject LOCAL_CERTIFICATE := platform LOCAL_STATIC_JAVA_LIBRARIES := jsch-0.1.49 commons-io-2.4 LOCAL_PROGUARD_FLAGS := -include $(LOCAL_PATH)/proguard.flags include $(BUILD_PACKAGE) LOCAL_STATIC_JAVA_LIBRARIES := libs LOCAL_PREBUILT_STATIC_JAVA_LIBRARIES := libs:jsch-0.1.49 libs:commons-io-2.4 include $(BUILD_MULTI_PREBUILT) ``` I'm sure there's just a little secret sauce I've gotten wrong, but I can't figure it out. Is there a good reference for Android.mk files? All I could find were recipes for working with the ndk.