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Building DroidFish

Introduction

This page explains how to build DroidFish using eclipse in linux and windows.

Preparations

To build DroidFish, you need a working eclipse installation with git support.

Building DroidFish

1. To build the DroidFish Android app, you first need to install the Android SDK and the Android NDK from http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html. SDK and NDK installation instructions can be found elsewhere.

2. Disable "Build automatically" from the "Project" menu.

3. Checkout the eclipse projects:

4. In eclipse, select File -> Import -> Git -> Projects from Git.

5. Select "Clone URI", click next.

6. In the URI field, enter https://github.com/peterosterlund2/droidfish.git, click next.

7. Click next and finish to import all projects.

8. If java is installed in a non-standard location on your computer or you are using windows, change the BinBook_builder eclipse builder:

9. Right click on CuckooChessEngine in the package explorer, select Properties.

10. Click Builders -> BinBook_builder -> Edit.

11. Change "Location" to point to your java executable. In windows, this is likely C:\Windows\System32\java.exe.

12. Define the NDK environment variable to point to your NDK installation directory, or modify the DroidFish Native_Builder (DroidFish -> Properties -> Builders -> Native_builder -> Edit -> Location) to point to the ndk-build script in the NDK installation directory. If you are using windows, point to the ndk-build.cmd script in the NDK installation directory.

13. Enable "Build automatically" from the "Project" menu.