I spent some time hacking wget to build under the NDK. It works pretty well, though it's not really in a condition to submit back to mainline. If you'd like to take a look, though, here's the patch: http://hoffman-andrews.com/android/wget/wget-android.patch To build, get wget from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-1.11.4.tar.gz and unpack it to android-ndk-1.5_r1/sources/wget. In the wget directory