Android CDT: Possible to use ndk-build without bash (Eclipse in Windows)?

Question

I'm using the android ndk, version r7b on Windows. I'd heard that starting with this version you don't need cygwin or bash to run the ndk-build executable but maybe I'm wrong. In any case I can't seem to get it to work in Eclipse just with 'ndk-build' as the command line option, I still need to stick 'bash' in front of there. Does anyone know whether this is possible?

Right now when I swap out 'bash ndk-build'.... with just 'ndk-build'... Eclipse says:

Cannot run program "c:\temp\android-ndk-r7b\ndk-build": Launching failed
Error: Program "c:/temp/android-ndk-r7b/ndk-build" is not found in PATH

..which is simply not true, the android-ndk-r7b directory is in my PATH environment variable and has been ever since I installed the NDK a week ago. I've opened and closed Eclipse numerous times since then so the value should be available to it. So I'm not sure what's going on here. Do you still need bash for r7b?

(BTW, I'm using c:\temp as the path here because I found out the hard way about NDK not liking directory paths with spaces, and put it there as a quick-fix. It'll find a permanent home eventually.)

Answer 1

Just FYI for others for whom ndk-build is not working.

My setup is: Windows 7, Eclipse[Indigo], NDK 8

instead of ndk-build, ndk-build.cmd is working fine for me.

Answer 2

Just wanna share the solution. Im using MacOS Lion but it is not platform specific problem. It is in Eclipse environment settings. Go to your project Properties -> C/C++ Build -> Environment. Click Add... and set name as PATH, value as your (echo $PATH) command from terminal/cmd return string without any quotes. This helps me, and i hope will help you too.