I've had a similar experience getting shit to work on multiple platforms. I decided not to use cmake for mobile targets. While the NDK in general sucks to build

I've had a similar experience getting shit to work on multiple platforms. I decided not to use cmake for mobile targets. While the NDK in general sucks to build, if you follow certain patterns you can get a system that works and is fairly straightforward. The path to get there is not easy though, I'll give you that.