Build FFMPEG with x264 for Android

Question

I am trying to build FFMPEG with libx264 for Android.

I can successfully build and use FFMPEG for Android but I realized that I need the ability to encode, therefore

Answer 1

I had the same problem. But after downgrading NDK to version 5c it works as described by halfninja. (ubuntu 64bit). there seem to be some changes in the toolchain from 5 to 7.

timo@serverplusplus:/tmp/android-ffmpeg-x264/Project/jni$ ndk-build 
Compile thumb  : ffmpeg <= ffmpeg.c
Compile thumb  : ffmpeg <= cmdutils.c
Executable     : ffmpeg
Install        : ffmpeg => libs/armeabi/ffmpeg
Compile thumb  : videokit <= uk_co_halfninja_videokit_Videokit.c
Compile thumb  : videokit <= ffmpeg.c
Compile thumb  : videokit <= cmdutils.c
SharedLibrary  : libvideokit.so
Install        : libvideokit.so => libs/armeabi/libvideokit.so