How to make your custom Android ROM – Compiling the system (part 2)

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aegypius
Published: January 6, 2010Posted in: DevelopmentTags: ,

Part 2 – The Compilation

This post is more generic than the previous one, every linux may work :

Let’s get the sources, Google uses a tool called “repo” so you need first to get this tool.

mkdir ~/bin
cat >> ~/.bashrc
# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d ~/bin ] ; then
  PATH=~/bin:"${PATH}"
fi
source ~/.bash_profile

This step allow you to have your own bin directory so you don’t mess your system with binaries that are not managed by emerge.

curl http://android.git.kernel.org/repo > ~/bin/repo
chmod a+x ~/bin/repo

Let’s try :

repo --version
repo version v1.6.8.8
        (from git://android.git.kernel.org/tools/repo.git)
git version 1.6.5.6
Python 2.6.4 (r264:75706, Dec  7 2009, 12:35:13)
[GCC 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2 p1.3)]

Now we will initialize android repository.

mkdir -p ~/src/android
cd ~/src/android
repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git -b donut

After a while you will be able to synchronize your repository

repo sync
export ANDROID_JAVA_HOME=$JAVA_HOME
make

Now compile is running …

272 minutes later, compilation completed  (on my AMD Athlon XP 3200+) !

In the next part we will test our fresh build !

See You !

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