cocos2d-x-2.1.4 : error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]

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Hakim Hauston picture Hakim Hauston · Aug 23, 2013 · Viewed 13.9k times · Source

I am working on a game on cocos2d-x-2.1.4, however, when I try to build it on Android, it failed with the error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security] on the file CCCommon.cpp

However, when I check the offensive line, it is totally fine. The file also build fine and always been fine when I build for WIN32 and iOS with Visual Studio and XCode..

The error log is as follows:

C:/Development/External/cocos2d-2.1rc0-x-2.1.3/projects/Game_C2DX213/proj.android/../../..//cocos2dx/platform/android/CCCommon.cpp: In function 'void cocos2d::CCLog(char const*, ...)':
/cygdrive/c/eclipse/android-ndk-r9/build/core/build-binary.mk:348: recipe for target `obj/local/armeabi/objs/cocos2dx_static/platform/android/CCCommon.o' failed
C:/Development/External/cocos2d-2.1rc0-x-2.1.3/projects/Game_C2DX213/proj.android/../../..//cocos2dx/platform/android/CCCommon.cpp:44:72: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]
C:/Development/External/cocos2d-2.1rc0-x-2.1.3/projects/Game_C2DX213/proj.android/../../..//cocos2dx/platform/android/CCCommon.cpp: In function 'void cocos2d::CCLuaLog(char const*)':
make: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/Development/External/cocos2d-2.1rc0-x-2.1.3/projects/Game_C2DX213/proj.android'
C:/Development/External/cocos2d-2.1rc0-x-2.1.3/projects/Game_C2DX213/proj.android/../../..//cocos2dx/platform/android/CCCommon.cpp:54:77: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]
cc1plus.exe: some warnings being treated as errors

Answer

Zennichimaro picture Zennichimaro · Aug 23, 2013

Note that cocos2d-x-2.1.4 may not be compatible with ndk-r9, have you try out r8e instead?

You can also put this in your Application.mk to disable treating those warnings as errors: APP_CFLAGS += -Wno-error=format-security

There are more solutions for the same problem in this thread:

http://www.cocos2d-x.org/boards/6/topics/32437?r=33260#message-33260

reference: http://www.cocos2d-x.org/boards/6/topics/33525?r=33579

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