Ubuntu 20.10 Installation: Missing Android SDK

Platforms Linux
#1

Hello Everyone :slight_smile:

Just found out about your engine and now try to build it on my Ubuntu 20.10.
I could follow your Installation instructions on Github and install all dependencies easily. Be aware that I had to install the clang-8 stuff as clang-7 isn’t available via normal apt install so I chose the closest version. I could have gone up to clang-11 or 12 if i remember correctly.

Here’s the error(s) when running sudo bash GenerateProjectFiles.sh -genproject -vscode :

Missing Android SDK. Cannot build for Android platform.
Missing Linux Toolchain. Cannot build for Linux platform.
Exception: Sequence contains no matching element

Of course in this post I’m mainly talking about missing Android SDK.

I have Android Studio installed and there I have installed the following major SDK versions: 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11
I have then also installed android-sdk via sudo apt install. GenerateProjectFiles.sh just doesn’t seem to find it. Should I define the version to use via androidPlatformApi=<version>? Which version to best choose (shouldn’t it find all possible version)?
Android Studio SDK Installation path: /home/user/Android/Sdk
APT Android SDK Install path: /usr/lib/android-sdk

Thanks for your help :slight_smile:

Looking forward to test the engine, looks very promising!
All the best,
Oli

#2

Just to clear things up, you can only build the engine for linux, not the editor yet.
There is the trello ticket here : https://trello.com/c/JBECyDyz

Regarding your error i will just let mafiesto talk about it, i don’t know enough flax builder.

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#3

ah I see, in that case I’ll have to wait anyway :slight_smile: thanks so much for your efforts!! can’t wait to try!

#4

So we’ve released 1.1 with full support for Editor on Linux: https://flaxengine.com/blog/flax-1-1-released/
Clang 6 or newer works fine (I tested versions 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 but newer should work too I guess).

Also ,we have CI on Github to ensure that Linux builds are always fine: https://github.com/FlaxEngine/FlaxEngine/actions/workflows/build_linux.yml