what is the difference between ndk-build and make APP for android?

Question

I am having too many confusions in native coding for android. My application wants to play mms:// stream and I'm facing some serious problems in that. But the basic question is

What is the difference between ndk-build (that i usually use) and make APP (i have seen many blogs on them one of them is this)

Another related question

Suppose my project is in E:\WorkSpace\mmsTests\AnotherMMS (path edited if you want to test : it contained whitespace) And my ndk path is D:\android-ndk-r4b-windows\android-ndk-r4b

How can i use make APP with cygwin? My os is windows xp sp2.

EDIT : I have added ndk location in my PATH variable

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

The 'make APP=...' method was the original NDK build system but is now deprecated in favor of the ndk-build method.

Anything that can be built with make APP=xxx can be built with ndk-build. ndk-build requires less manual setup and hard coded paths.