xkbcommon: ERROR: failed to add default include path

Issue

You may encounter this issue while doing a cross build. This error is related to cross build issues with xkbcommon specifically:

xkbcommon: ERROR: failed to add default include path /usr/share/X11/xkb

This error occurs because by default, xkbcommon will look for configuration files in /usr/share/X11/xkb. And of course, they are not found in the expected location, so you have to specify otherwise during cross compilation.

Solution

To resolve this issue, you need to re-cross-compile libxkbcommon.so for Android with the right xkb-config-root. Please check this working example on how to specify the correct config root (and other important parameters such as locale root).