In addition to the requirements for building Filament on Windows, you'll need the Android SDK and NDK. See Getting Started with the NDK for detailed installation instructions.
You'll also need Ninja 1.8 (or more recent) and Git for Windows to clone the repository and run Bash scripts.
Ensure the %ANDROID_HOME%
environment variable is set to your Android SDK installation location.
On Windows, we require VS2019 for building the host tools. All of the following commands should be executed in a Visual Studio x64 Native Tools Command Prompt for VS 2019.
Python 3 is required. If CMake errors because it cannot find Python 3:
Could NOT find PythonInterp: Found unsuitable version "1.4", but required is at least "3"
then add the following flag to the CMake invocations:
-DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE:FILEPATH=\path\to\python3
First, a few Filament tools need to be compiled for desktop.
- From Filament's root directory, create a desktop build directory and run CMake.
mkdir out\cmake-release
cd out\cmake-release
cmake ^
-G Ninja ^
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=..\release\filament ^
-DFILAMENT_ENABLE_JAVA=NO ^
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ^
..\..
- Build the required desktop host tools.
ninja matc resgen cmgen
The build should succeed and a ImportExecutables-Release.cmake
file should automatically be
created at Filament's root directory.
If you are going to build Filament samples you should install desktop host tools:
ninja install
- Create the build directories.
mkdir out\cmake-android-release-aarch64
mkdir out\cmake-android-release-arm7
mkdir out\cmake-android-release-x86_64
mkdir out\cmake-android-release-x86
- Run CMake for each architecture.
cd out\cmake-android-release-aarch64
cmake ^
-G Ninja ^
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ^
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=..\android-release\filament ^
-DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=..\..\build\toolchain-aarch64-linux-android.cmake ^
..\..
cd out\cmake-android-release-arm7
cmake ^
-G Ninja ^
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ^
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=..\android-release\filament ^
-DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=..\..\build\toolchain-arm7-linux-android.cmake ^
..\..
cd out\cmake-android-release-x86_64
cmake ^
-G Ninja ^
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ^
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=..\android-release\filament ^
-DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=..\..\build\toolchain-x86_64-linux-android.cmake ^
..\..
cd out\cmake-android-release-x86
cmake ^
-G Ninja ^
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ^
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=..\android-release\filament ^
-DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=..\..\build\toolchain-x86-linux-android.cmake ^
..\..
- Build.
Inside of each build directory, run:
ninja install
The Gradle project used to generate the AAR is located at <filament>\android
.
cd android
gradlew -Pcom.google.android.filament.dist-dir=..\out\android-release\filament assembleRelease
copy filament-android\build\outputs\aar\filament-android-release.aar ..\..\out\
If you're only interested in building for a single ABI, you'll need to pass a com.google.android.filament.abis
parameter:
gradlew -Pcom.google.android.filament.dist-dir=..\out\android-release\filament assembleRelease -Pcom.google.android.filament.abis=x86
If you're only interested in building SDK, you may skip samples build by passing a com.google.android.filament.skip-samples
flag:
gradlew -Pcom.google.android.filament.dist-dir=..\out\android-release\filament assembleRelease -Pcom.google.android.filament.skip-samples
filament-android-release.aar
should now be present at <filament>\out\filament-android-release.aar
.
See Using Filament's AAR for usage instructions.