arm-linux-androideabi-gcc is unable to create an executable - compile ffmpeg for android armeabi devices

I finally found the problem with my setup when facing this same issue... Looking at the arm-build.sh script, I started following the script. Notice the "TOOLCHAIN=..." path.

Originally the path was: TOOLCHAIN=echo $NDK/toolchains/arm-linux-androideabi-4.6/prebuilt/*-x86

When I went to verify this path exists, I noticed that it did not. I think the reason is that I have a 64-bit build.

My path is actually: .../toolchains/arm-linux-androideabi-4.6/prebuilt/linux-x86_64

What I ended up doing was copying the folder, and renaming it to "linux-x86" and now all is compiling.

Hope this helps someone!

I'm not sure if this is what you are looking but I created a script in order to build FFmpeg 0.11.1 for Android. I modified the scripts provided with older Bambuser FFmpeg builds in order to get them working with 0.11.1. I'm currently using this script to build FFmpeg in my own application so I know the build works. The script located at http://servestream.sourceforge.net/build-ffmpeg.sh. I'm using android-ndk-r8b and Ubuntu 12.04 (x64) to do the building. In order to use the script do the following:

1.) Download the script
2.) Open the script and modify the PACKAGE variable to match application's package
3.) Make it executable: chmod +x build-ffmpeg.sh
4.) Set the NDK variable used by the script, for example: export NDK=/home/user/android-ndk-r8b
5.) Run the script: ./build-ffmpeg.sh

The compiled binaries will be located in the newly created "final-builds" folder in the current working directory. (Note: the script builds binaries for armeabi, armeabi-v7a and x86 architectures)

I hope this answers your question.

UPDATE:

If script isn't found, http://sourceforge.net/p/servestream/code/HEAD/tree/ffmpeg/scripts/arm-build.sh