# for android build cmake
**URL:** https://discourse.cmake.org/t/for-android-build-cmake/5682
**Category:** Usage
**Created:** [May 17, 2022, 3:00pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/for-android-build-cmake/5682 "2022-05-17T15:00:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@mumin16](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/mumin16)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2022, 3:00pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/for-android-build-cmake/5682/1 "2022-05-17T15:00:42Z")
for android build, CMAKE\_C\_COMPILER must manually set FILEPATH for c compiler. otherwise we get error “incompatible with elf\_x86\_64”. i think that cmake can’t choose correct c compiler for android build.
i set those:
ANDROID\_PLATFORM=android-26
ANDROID\_ABI=x86\_64
is there another?
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### Author:  [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2022, 1:02pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/for-android-build-cmake/5682/2 "2022-05-18T13:02:16Z")
Android SDKs ship with a toolchain file that you should use IIRC. Do they not make the compiler be found automatically?
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### Author:  [@mumin16](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/mumin16)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2022, 11:10am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/for-android-build-cmake/5682/3 "2022-05-19T11:10:38Z")
it cant found automatically.
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### Author:  [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2022, 11:30am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/for-android-build-cmake/5682/4 "2022-05-19T11:30:56Z")
Sorry, but more details will need to be given for me (or, I suspect, anyone else) to actually be able to assist you. I don’t know what your setup is or what you’ve attempted. Specifics go much longer than paraphrasing error messages and being vague about what you actually did.