Could you send us a link to the tutorial you are referring to?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9ObAzm6rnQ 

The above is the vidoe I watched.  I actually got past loading up the command prompt stuff but he seemed to be using eclips ide instead of cocos ide.  when I tried to use the cocos ide to try and import the project it did not have the same import options as eclipes.  it did not have a C++ or andoid phone option.  how would I get this to work on the cocos ide or will I need to use eclipes?

Those tutorials are ours and Cocos Code IDE doesn’t support C++ so you need to use Eclipse.

what eclipse ide do I use and how is it initially set up before setting it up for cocos

Any will do but not Android Studio and the video shows you what needs to be done.

I SEEM to have the thing correctly loaded up, but when I try and run the andriod application I eventually get a message on my andoide phone saying “unfortunately elipseCocosGame has stopped.” It loaded  the application (or part of it) onto the andoide phone because I see the cocos icon with the name of my game in the apps/ widget section of the phone. can someone tell me what I am doing wrong? 

I think the problem is comming from this build error:  raise Exception("Build dynamic library for project [ " + app_android_root + " ] fails!")

I did not find any spaces in my directory folders and the environmental variables appeared to be correct.  there was no NDK_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION (what ever that is)  but I am not sure if that is vaild for this project.

additional information below

//----------------------------------------------------build coments/errors -----------------------------------------------------------

I get the following message on the console after build:

11:31:00 **** Incremental Build of configuration Default for project elipseCocosGame ****

python C:/development/elipseCocosGame/proj.android/build_native.py all

'C:\development\android-ndk-r9d\ndk-build' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

operable program or batch file.

The Selected NDK toolchain version was 4.8 !

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "C:/development/elipseCocosGame/proj.android/build_native.py", line 166, in

build(opts.ndk_build_param,opts.android_platform,opts.build_mode)

File "C:/development/elipseCocosGame/proj.android/build_native.py", line 153, in build

do_build(cocos_root, ndk_root, app_android_root,ndk_build_param,sdk_root,android_platform,build_mode)

File "C:/development/elipseCocosGame/proj.android/build_native.py", line 89, in do_build

raise Exception("Build dynamic library for project [ " + app_android_root + " ] fails!")

Exception: Build dynamic library for project [ C:\development\elipseCocosGame\proj.android ] fails!

11:31:00 Build Finished (took 205ms)

//---------------------------------------------WARNINGS IN THE PROBLEM SECTION -------------------------------------------------------

I also have the following warnings (no errors) :  I assume all but the first one are not the reasons for the issues I am having but I listed them anyways just in case.

Description Resource Path Location Type
Invalid project path: Include path not found (C:\development\elipseCocosGame\cocos2d\cocos\math\kazmath). elipseCocosGame  pathentry Path Entry Problem

Description Resource Path Location Type
The import android.content.pm.ActivityInfo is never used Cocos2dxHelper.java /libcocos2dx/src/org/cocos2dx/lib line 36 Java Problem

Description Resource Path Location Type
The import android.content.pm.PackageManager is never used Cocos2dxHelper.java /libcocos2dx/src/org/cocos2dx/lib line 38 Java Problem

Description Resource Path Location Type
The import android.os.Build is never used Cocos2dxAccelerometer.java /libcocos2dx/src/org/cocos2dx/lib line 36 Java Problem

Description Resource Path Location Type
The import android.util.Log is never used Cocos2dxAccelerometer.java /libcocos2dx/src/org/cocos2dx/lib line 32 Java Problem

Description Resource Path Location Type
The method dumpMotionEvent(MotionEvent) from the type Cocos2dxGLSurfaceView is never used locally Cocos2dxGLSurfaceView.java /libcocos2dx/src/org/cocos2dx/lib line 354 Java Problem

Description Resource Path Location Type
The value of the field Cocos2dxTextInputWraper.TAG is not used Cocos2dxTextInputWraper.java /libcocos2dx/src/org/cocos2dx/lib line 40 Java Problem
 

Compilation is failing, could you send us a screenshot of the command prompt.

I’m not using the command prompt at this point.  I’m running eclipes the way I run normal window applications.  but here is what  i got when I pressed setup after appling the paths...looks like they are all found.

I found one strange problem.  I looked at this error message:  'C:\development\android-ndk-r9d\ndk-build' is not recognized as an internal or external command, and when I opened it up I found that ndk-build was not there along with other files...sometime norton takes out files when it thinks they are dangerous.  I will try and reload it and see what happens.

Have you built it in Command Prompt first?

Yes.  I did it the way I was told to in the vidoe. using setup.py and then dragging the appropriate files into the command line then I closed it out and opened it back up and ran setup again and it said all everthing was found. then I ran the cocos.py new game –p  game.game -l ccp and it compiled it for me with no errors. then when I rean eclipse and imported the files it gave some compiler errors  But like I just said in my previous email I  found that I was missing several files in the ndk folder so I replaced it and reloaded it and it compliled and now it works.  I now see the logo on my phone. That was frustraiting.  I thought it was doing something  wrong when in reality major files were removed, probably by norton. 

Anyways thanks for trying to help with this confusing problem.

No you haven’t mentioned that you built it, have you run the build_native file in command prompt after cocos.py new game ….

No, I didn’t, but it appears to be working correctly. there are no compilier errors in Eclipse.  It is communicating with my android phone because it has the cocos logo displaying and and the frames per second are constantly updating.

Do I still need to do a build-native thing?  And, exacly how would I do it?   

Would I do it like this:  cocos.py new game  -p  game.gameext  -l  cpp  -d  <directory>  build_native

Note: I really don’t have much experience using the command line except for what I Iearned briefly while learning electronics in college.

You need to run the build command as it build the Cocos2d-x side and Eclipse only build the Android side. The video covers the process.