diff --git a/project/jni/application/vcmi/Android.mk b/project/jni/application/vcmi/Android.mk
index 541bc8d9d..798463df1 100644
--- a/project/jni/application/vcmi/Android.mk
+++ b/project/jni/application/vcmi/Android.mk
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ include $(CLEAR_VARS)
 
 LOCAL_MODULE := vcmi
 
+# VCMI compilation process is atrocious
+$(shell touch $(LOCAL_PATH)/libvcmi.so)
+$(warning Please ignore the error about libvcmi.so, just recompile)
+
 ifneq ($(NDK_R5_TOOLCHAIN),)
 LOCAL_SRC_FILES := libvcmi.so
 include $(PREBUILT_SHARED_LIBRARY)