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Cross compiling on Windows for Android fails

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Description

I followed the instructions in the readme to build for Android but I'm facing this error.

```
error: failed to run custom build command for `quiche v0.23.7 (C:\Users\clomb\Desktop\quiche\quiche)`

Caused by:
process didn't exit successfully: `C:\Users\clomb\Desktop\quiche\target\debug\build\quiche-0e087bf04019ac4d\build-script-build` (exit code: 101)
--- stdout
CMAKE_GENERATOR_aarch64-linux-android = None
CMAKE_GENERATOR_aarch64_linux_android = None
TARGET_CMAKE_GENERATOR = None
CMAKE_GENERATOR = None
CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH_aarch64-linux-android = None
CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH_aarch64_linux_android = None
TARGET_CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH = None
CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH = None
CMAKE_aarch64-linux-android = None
CMAKE_aarch64_linux_android = None
TARGET_CMAKE = None
CMAKE = None
running: "cmake" "C:\\Users\\clomb\\Desktop\\quiche\\quiche\\deps/boringssl" "-DANDROID_ABI=arm64-v8a" "-DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=C:\\Users\\clomb\\AppData\\Local\\Android\\Sdk\\ndk\\28.0.13004108\\build/cmake/android.toolchain.cmake" "-DANDROID_NATIVE_API_LEVEL=21" "-DANDROID_STL=c++_shared" "-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=C:\\Users\\clomb\\Desktop\\quiche\\target\\aarch64-linux-android\\debug\\build\\quiche-e28078fb55f4d500\\out" "-DCMAKE_C_FLAGS= --target=aarch64-linux-android21" "-DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS= --target=aarch64-linux-android21" "-DCMAKE_ASM_FLAGS= --target=aarch64-linux-android21" "-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug"
-- Building for: Visual Studio 17 2022
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

--- stderr
CMake Deprecation Warning at CMakeLists.txt:7 (cmake_minimum_required):
Compatibility with CMake < 3.10 will be removed from a future version of
CMake.

Update the VERSION argument value. Or, use the ... syntax
to tell CMake that the project requires at least but has been updated
to work with policies introduced by or earlier.

CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:9 (project):
Failed to run MSBuild command:

C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/MSBuild/Current/Bin/amd64/MSBuild.exe

to get the value of VCTargetsPath:

MSBuild version 17.13.19+0d9f5a35a for .NET Framework
Build started 4/11/2025 11:22:29 AM.

Project "C:\Users\clomb\Desktop\quiche\target\aarch64-linux-android\debug\build\quiche-e28078fb55f4d500\out\build\CMakeFiles\4.0.1\VCTargetsPath.vcxproj" on node 1 (default targets).
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\MSBuild\Current\Bin\amd64\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(843,5): error : The BaseOutputPath/OutputPath property is not set for project 'VCTargetsPath.vcxproj'. Please check to make sure that you have specified a valid combination of Configuration and Platform for this project. Configuration='Debug' Platform='x64'. You may be seeing this message because you are trying to build a project without a solution file, and have specified a non-default Configuration or Platform that doesn't exist for this project. [C:\Users\clomb\Desktop\quiche\target\aarch64-linux-android\debug\build\quiche-e28078fb55f4d500\out\build\CMakeFiles\4.0.1\VCTargetsPath.vcxproj]
Done Building Project "C:\Users\clomb\Desktop\quiche\target\aarch64-linux-android\debug\build\quiche-e28078fb55f4d500\out\build\CMakeFiles\4.0.1\VCTargetsPath.vcxproj" (default targets) -- FAILED.

Build FAILED.

"C:\Users\clomb\Desktop\quiche\target\aarch64-linux-android\debug\build\quiche-e28078fb55f4d500\out\build\CMakeFiles\4.0.1\VCTargetsPath.vcxproj" (default target) (1) ->
(_CheckForInvalidConfigurationAndPlatform target) ->
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\MSBuild\Current\Bin\amd64\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(843,5): error : The BaseOutputPath/OutputPath property is not set for project 'VCTargetsPath.vcxproj'. Please check to make sure that you have specified a valid combination of Configuration and Platform for this project. Configuration='Debug' Platform='x64'. You may be seeing this message because you are trying to build a project without a solution file, and have specified a non-default Configuration or Platform that doesn't exist for this project. [C:\Users\clomb\Desktop\quiche\target\aarch64-linux-android\debug\build\quiche-e28078fb55f4d500\out\build\CMakeFiles\4.0.1\VCTargetsPath.vcxproj]

0 Warning(s)
1 Error(s)

Time Elapsed 00:00:01.21

Exit code: 1

thread 'main' panicked at C:\Users\clomb\.cargo\registry\src\index.crates.io-1949cf8c6b5b557f\cmake-0.1.54\src\lib.rs:1119:5:

command did not execute successfully, got: exit code: 1

build script failed, must exit now
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace
warning: build failed, waiting for other jobs to finish...
note: If the build failed due to a missing target, you can run this command:
note:
note: rustup target install aarch64-linux-android
```

The note at the end is misleading because I do have that target installed.

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