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Bug 1405 - README.android misses build instruction: copy SDL_config_android.h -> SDL_config.h
Summary: README.android misses build instruction: copy SDL_config_android.h -> SDL_con...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: SDL
Classification: Unclassified
Component: build (show other bugs)
Version: HG 2.0
Hardware: All Android (All)
: P2 minor
Assignee: Sam Lantinga
QA Contact: Sam Lantinga
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Reported: 2012-01-29 16:54 UTC by Ellie
Modified: 2012-07-29 02:36 UTC (History)
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Description Ellie 2012-01-29 16:54:57 UTC 
The "Building an app" instructions miss an important step, which is copying SDL_config_android.h to SDL_config.h so SDL will use the right compile time settings.

It might be obvious to experts, but I wasted some hours on this ;-) (see #1404) and others might aswell. Please add an instruction for this. Thanks.
Comment 1 Ellie 2012-01-31 11:35:04 UTC 
To help with a fix, I'll suggest a wording (see step 2):

================================================================================
 Building an app
================================================================================

Instructions:
1. Copy the android-project directory wherever you want to keep your projects and rename it to the name of your project.
2. Move this SDL directory into the <project>/jni directory and then copy SDL_config_android.h to SDL_config.h inside the include folder
3. Place your application source files in the <project>/jni/src directory
4. Edit <project>/jni/src/Android.mk to include your source files
5. Run 'ndk-build' (a script provided by the NDK). This compiles the C source
Comment 2 Sam Lantinga 2012-01-31 17:55:51 UTC 
Thanks for the wording!  This is now fixed.
http://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/2fa7e0540f95
Comment 3 Philipp Wiesemann 2012-07-29 02:36:44 UTC 
The copying of the SDL_config_android.h is not needed because on 2012-01-03 SDL_config.h was changed in repository to include SDL_config_android.h if compiled on Android.

Therefore this instruction is not needed (it even was not when added to README on 2012-01-31) and only complicates the process.