You will need to install some packages to your Debian/Ubuntu first. You will need both xcb-proto and python-xcbgen packages to have version 1.10-1 or newer, so you need to build on at least Debian Jessie or newer distribution. Install following packages, assuming fresh Debian Jessie installation for x86_64 architecture: sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install bison libpixman-1-dev libxfont-dev libxkbfile-dev libpciaccess-dev xutils-dev \ xcb-proto python-xcbgen xsltproc x11proto-bigreqs-dev x11proto-composite-dev x11proto-core-dev \ x11proto-damage-dev x11proto-dmx-dev x11proto-dri2-dev x11proto-fixes-dev x11proto-fonts-dev \ x11proto-gl-dev x11proto-input-dev x11proto-kb-dev x11proto-print-dev x11proto-randr-dev \ x11proto-record-dev x11proto-render-dev x11proto-resource-dev x11proto-scrnsaver-dev \ x11proto-video-dev x11proto-xcmisc-dev x11proto-xext-dev x11proto-xf86bigfont-dev \ x11proto-xf86dga-dev x11proto-xf86dri-dev x11proto-xf86vidmode-dev x11proto-xinerama-dev \ libxmuu-dev libxt-dev libsm-dev libice-dev libxrender-dev libxrandr-dev xfonts-utils \ curl autoconf automake libtool pkg-config libjpeg-dev libpng-dev git mc locales \ openjdk-7-jdk ant make zip libstdc++6:i386 libgcc1:i386 zlib1g:i386 libncurses5:i386 Install Android NDK r11c and Android SDK with Android 6.0 framework, they must be in your $PATH. Download SDL repo, select xserver project, and build it: git clone git@github.com:pelya/commandergenius.git sdl-android cd sdl-android git submodule update --init --recursive rm -f project/jni/application/src ln -s xserver project/jni/application/src ./build.sh That's all. Following instructions are to set up a fresh compilation environment inside a chroot, use them only if you fail to build on your current setup. Install debootstrap and schroot onto your host Debian or Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install schroot debootstrap sudo debootstrap --arch=amd64 --components=sudo jessie jessie-x64 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ Configure schroot to log into it - add file /etc/schroot/chroot.d/jessie-x64.conf with following content: [jessie-x64] description=Debian Jessie x64 type=directory directory=/path/to/jessie-x64 users=your-user-ID groups=your-user-ID root-groups=root aliases=x64 Log into it with command schroot -c jessie-x64 Configure apt sources in the resulting Jessie installation - edit file /etc/apt/sources.list to look like this: deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ jessie contrib main non-free deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates contrib main non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates contrib main non-free deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ jessie-backports contrib main non-free deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ jessie-backports contrib main Install necessary Debian packages, as described above. Configure locales with command: sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales Select en_US.UTF-8, we don't need any weird non-English languages here. Exit chroot and log into it again. Install Android NDK r10e and Android SDK with Android 5.1 framework, they must be in your $PATH. Then download SDL repo, select xserver project, and build it, as described above.