The objects in this prebuilt directory can be rebuilt from the source in $ANDROID/external/qemu/distrib/sdl-1.2.15. For 32-bit $ cd $ANDROID/external/qemu/distrib/sdl-1.2.15 $ ./android-configure.sh --prefix=$ANDROID/prebuilts/tools/linux-x86/sdl $ make $ make install To add 64-bit *.a (after successful 32-bit build) $ cd $ANDROID/external/qemu/distrib/sdl-1.2.15 $ ./android-configure.sh --try-64 $ make $ cp objs/libs/libSDL.a $ANDROID/prebuilts/tools/linux-x86/sdl/libs/lib64SDL.a $ cp objs/libs/libSDLmain.a $ANDROID/prebuilts/linux-x86/sdl/libs/lib64SDLmain.a