# Gradle-experimental ndk recursively include headers

**URL:** <https://discuss.gradle.org/t/gradle-experimental-ndk-recursively-include-headers/13229>\
**Category:** Help/Discuss\
**Created:** [December 14, 2015, 9:32am UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/gradle-experimental-ndk-recursively-include-headers/13229 "2015-12-14T09:32:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![downstroy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bc79bd/32.png) [@downstroy](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/downstroy)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 9:32am UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/gradle-experimental-ndk-recursively-include-headers/13229/1 "2015-12-14T09:32:26Z")

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Hi!

I am using gradle 2.9 in android studio using experimental ndk support 0.6.0-alpha-1 (see [http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/new-build-system/gradle-experimental](http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/new-build-system/gradle-experimental))

Is there a way to recursively include headers from a folder?

```
            exportedHeaders {
                srcDir "src"
                srcDir "../../Classes"
                srcDir "../../../../dependencies/project/mobile/android"
                srcDir "../../../../dependencies/project/mobile/engine"
            }

```

doesn’t seems to recursively include headers from sub-folders of android, engine etc.

I have just stumbled upon this: [Cpp plugin source file location conventions feel wrong](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/cpp-plugin-source-file-location-conventions-feel-wrong/2248/4).

It says that there is no convenient way to recursively include headers, but it was for gradle 1.7, and I am using 2.9. I am hoping things have changed !

As pointed out in the following posts, I have tried using:

```
                include "*/.cpp"

```

and

```
                include "*/.h"

```

with no luck.

After some search, I suspect headers are included, but as the build relies on another hybrid project which is never built (see google groupd android-ndk for ref), missing headers from that project prevents the other of my project to be defined, and thus misleadingly leads me to think that they are not included.

I am not sure yet. I’ll post an updated when I will be sure.