This are the tools you need to build SFML for Android on a Windows Machine

• CMake
• Git
• Android SDK
• Android NDK
• Apache Ant
• MinGW (msys basic)
• Java jre
• Java jdk
• Android USB Driver (Download: http://adbdriver.com/ )

Make sure you've installed all tools (Tools -> Android SDK Tools / Platform-tools / Build-tools) in the Android SDK Manager.

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If you have installed Visual Studio 2015 you might got some tools from above alerady. If so here are the default directories Visual Studio will put them:

• Android NDK: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\AndroidNDK (or AndroidNDK64)
• Android SDK: C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk
• Apache Ant: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Apps
• Java SE jdk: C:\Program Files (x86)\Java
• Git: C:\Program Files\Git

Add following Paths to the PATH-Enviromentvariable

• [Path to CMake]\bin
• [Path to Git]\bin
• [Path to SDK]\tools
• [Path to SDK]\platform-tools
• [Path to NDK]
• [Path to ANT]\bin
• [Path to MinGW]\bin
• [Path to MinGW]\msys\1.0\bin
• [Path to Java jre]\bin
• [Path to Java jdk]\bin

Make sure you use backslashes(\) and seperate the paths with semicolons (;)!

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Add two new enviroment variables

Name: ANDROID_NDK
Value: [Path/to/NDK]
(e.g. C:/Android/NDK )
Make sure you use forwardslashes(/)!

Name: JAVA_HOME
Value: [PATH\to\jdk]
(e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.7.0_55 )
Make sure you use backslashes(\)!

Clone the SFML Repository from Github.

Enter following comands in a cmd window:

git clone https://github.com/SFML/SFML.git SFML

If you already downloaded SFML before you can just use the existing one.

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Create some folders for the build-files

cd SFML
mkdir build && cd build
mkdir armeabi-v7a && cd armeabi-v7a

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Generate MSYS Makefiles for armeabi-v7a with cmake

cmake -DANDROID_ABI=armeabi-v7a -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=../../cmake/toolchains/android.toolchain.cmake ../.. -G "MSYS Makefiles"

You can exchange armeabi-v7a with other architectures as you like.

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Compile SFML from the generated makefiles and install it to $(NDK)/sources folder.

For this action you probably need administrator privileges. (Run cmd.exe as admin)

make && make install

You can use make install for multiple architectures. It all uses one sfml tag in the $(NDK)/sources folder.

You can find the Android Sample in [SFML_ROOT]\examples\android
You can copy it to leave the SFML repository in it's original state. Open cmd.exe in the sample location.
To get a list of all available Android build targets:

android list target

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Run Update Project for the Sample:

android update project --path [Path/to/Android/Sample] --target [targetID]

e.g.

android update project --path "" --target android-19

For path we can use "" because we are running cmd in the sample path already.

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To compile use this command:

ndk-build

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Create the debug (or release) apk:

ant debug
ant release

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Or use this command to directly install it on a device:

ant debug install