Looking for the old 'how to'

[teddyearp]

Hey sniffle, I looked at the alldroid archives and couldn't find your very nicely compiled thread about how to compile a rom from scratch.

Any chance you had saved that text somewhere?

TIA.

 

[obededom]

Building SHOLES ROM from Source

^^^ has alot of decent info, the alldroid link doesn't redirect to the archived page though

 

[sniffle]

android.cvpcs.org

i converted everything to wiki, it's easier to mainrtain

 

[teddyearp]

Thanks sniffle. Nice work, I have yet to try your rom, waiting until you get the wifi issues ironed out for your froyo build. The other link also comes in handy since I am running Ubuntu 8.0.4 and your original guide was based on that distro. So as far as I know I'm running a make on the froyo source right now.

thx.

 

[teddyearp]

OK, just a quick question. I got through with the 'download source' portion ok and ran the 'make' command once. It came up with a few warnings, and I did find a thread of yours (sniffle) in the alldroid archives that said you ran the 'make' command again so it would only print the errors. I did that, but all it did was show the info (2.2, etc.) and installed Mms.apk. So I guess that means I have a good generic build?

I've got more questions, but I'll just see if this gets answered.

Thanks in advance.

 

[sniffle]

I would honestly be amazed if the guide worked pulling the froyo source as the vendor setup had to be remade...

Ask away ill always do my best to respond

 

[teddyearp]

Well, I did do a couple of things a bit different, i.e. when I did the 'repo' command I did this:

repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git -b froyo

And then when I went to varify the git tags, the key block you had produced an error so I used the one from the android source page. Then I did the 'make' command as mentioned and it spit out all kinds of stuff, so after it was done I did what I thought I read you did in one of the archives at alldroid and run it again since I think you did that just to see what errors it would spit out and all it gave me was this:

teddyearp@teddyearp-desktop:~/android/system$ make
============================================
PLATFORM_VERSION_CODENAME=REL
PLATFORM_VERSION=2.2
TARGET_PRODUCT=generic
TARGET_BUILD_VARIANT=eng
TARGET_SIMULATOR=
TARGET_BUILD_TYPE=release
TARGET_BUILD_APPS=
TARGET_ARCH=arm
HOST_ARCH=x86
HOST_OS=linux
HOST_BUILD_TYPE=release
BUILD_ID=MASTER
============================================
Install: out/target/product/generic/system/app/Mms.apk

Now as far as the vendor setup, when I tried to go to ~/android/system/vendor /vendor wasn't there. It's been three months since I was tinkering with this before, I had to replace a motherboard and re-install my systems on this comp but there is a ~/android/system/hardware folder that I'm not sure was part of the eclair branch?

Am I getting anywhere? Or should I redo the whole thing because of the missing /vendor folder. Or am I going down a road of questions here that I should pursue elsewhere?

TIA.

 

[sniffle]

That's just it with the release of froyo, the vendor folder is no more.

This coming week, time providing... I'm going to rewrite the guide for froyo...

The guide itself will be ubuntu version inspecific, making notations where necessary (java5 installation)

Give me a little while ill give you something you can actually follow

 

[teddyearp]

Thanks again. I see in koush's github he is adding a /device/motorola_sholes branch, I don't think droidmod has gotten that far yet in their gerrit, but anyways . . .

You didn't quite answer my question, did I have a successful sync/make? And is eclipse ABSOLUTELY required for rom building?

 

[sniffle]

It looked like you synced correctly

If you ran make and it completed after running for a long time and went back to command prompt yes you successfully compiled android. But it is non phone specific so it is not flashable on a device.

 

[Koveleski]

That's just it with the release of froyo, the vendor folder is no more.

This coming week, time providing... I'm going to rewrite the guide for froyo...

The guide itself will be ubuntu version inspecific, making notations where necessary (java5 installation)

Give me a little while ill give you something you can actually follow

Completely looking forward to this.

 

[sniffle]

i forgot to answer about eclipse...

no it is not absolutely necessary for Eclipse to be used, google provides an eclipse plugin for android, and that is how google codes for android.

i usually use a text editor when modifying code.

 

[teddyearp]

Thanks for your time. I knew it wouldn't be usable on a phone, but at least my machine is in the right place.

 

[subsynth]

I'm excited about seeing the guide reach completion.

I've found several resources and how-to guides that cover about half of the steps and then just stop. They are all "to be continued" and then abandoned.