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Overview
I. Preparation
II. Installation of the required packages
III. Installing Java
IV. The sources
V. Building the ROM
VI. Rebuilding with newest sources
I. Preparation
Things you need for building:
A computer
An internet connection
An open mind
Time
Patience
First of all, you need a running up-to-date Ubuntu/Linux system. I am using Ubuntu 13.10 64-bit.
Use the terminal to make the steps. A terminal window can be opened by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T. Every single command for the
terminal is marked with a $ sign. Just paste every command (without the $ sign) to your terminal window and there shouldn't be
any problem.
IMPORTANT: INSTALL EVERYTHING AS A NORMAL USER. DON'T INSTALL AS ROOT!
II. Installation of the required packages (Ubuntu 13.10 64-bit)
Install packages:
Code:
$ sudo apt-get install bison build-essential curl flex \
g++-multilib gcc-multilib git-core gnupg gperf \
lib32ncurses5-dev lib32readline-gplv2-dev lib32z1-dev \
libesd0-dev libncurses5-dev libsdl1.2-dev \
libwxgtk2.8-dev libxml2 libxml2-utils lzop \
openjdk-6-jdk openjdk-6-jre pngcrush schedtool \
squashfs-tools xsltproc zip zlib1g-dev
III. Installing Java
You need a version 6 Java Development Kit for building CM11.0. Usually, the SUN JDK 6 is recommended. But there is
another way: you can use the OpenJDK 6. When you installed the required packages as described above, you will just need to
configure your Java installation.
Check your Java version:
Code:
$ java -version
Verify the symlinks. Javac, Java, Javaws, Javadoc, Javah, Javap and Jar should all point to the right Java location and version:
Code:
$ ls -la /etc/alternatives/java* && ls -la /etc/alternatives/jar
If they are pointing to the wrong versions you have to change that to OpenJDK6.
Select the default Java version for your system:
Code:
$ sudo update-alternatives --config javac
$ sudo update-alternatives --config java
$ sudo update-alternatives --config javaws
$ sudo update-alternatives --config javadoc
$ sudo update-alternatives --config javah
$ sudo update-alternatives --config javap
$ sudo update-alternatives --config jar
That's it.
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IV. The sources
Install repo:
Repo is a tool that makes it quite easy to download and maintain the sources of Cyanogenmod.
Code:
$ mkdir ~/bin
$ PATH=~/bin:$PATH
$ cd ~/bin
$ curl http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > ~/bin/repo
$ chmod a+x ~/bin/repo
Create the working directory:
Code:
$ mkdir ~/cm11
$ cd ~/cm11
Initialize Repo:
Code:
$ repo init -u git://github.com/CyanogenMod/android.git -b cm-11.0
and enter your credentials.
Download the sources:
Code:
$ repo sync
Wait until it's finished - takes some time to download the hefty 12 GB of source code!
Have a break, have a KitKat!
If the process hangs use Ctrl+C to break out of it and resume the download with another
Code:
$ repo sync
If you are running into a lot of syncing errors the reason might be that the 'repo sync' command is establishing four threads
automatically. This might be too much. So try to change the command to run with one thread only by using
Code:
$ repo sync -j1
Initialize the environment
Code:
$ . build/envsetup.sh
Obtain the proprietary files:
First get two missing repositories for the Nexus 4 by running
Code:
$ breakfast mako
Then create a file with the name local_manifest.xml in the local_manifests directory. To see this directory, you have to press
Ctrl-H in your file manager.
Use this code
Code:
$ gedit ~/cm11/.repo/local_manifests/local_manifest.xml
Update: Branch revision is now cm-11.0
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Update: Branch revision is now cm-11.0
Paste the following lines to the editor
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<manifest>
<project name="TheMuppets/proprietary_vendor_lge.git" path="vendor/lge" remote="github" revision="cm-11.0"/>
</manifest>
Save the file.
Run
Code:
$ repo sync
again to get the files needed.
Download the necessary prebuilts from cyanogenmod by running
Code:
$ cd ~/cm11/vendor/cm
$ . get-prebuilts
$ croot
And you're done!
V. Building the ROM
Now build it:
Code:
$ brunch mako
And the building process starts. Now have patience. Building takes around half an hour on fast systems and a lot more on
older and slower machines.
Update 20131108: The errors from 20131106 are gone now. If you made the changes revert them, sync the repo and
then brunch again. There is no need to edit the source at the moment.
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When everything worked as it should you will find your new ROM-image in ~/cm11/out/target/product/mako
It is called cm-11-DATE-UNOFFICIAL-mako-zip. You can flash it via CWM/TWRP as usual.
VI. Rebuilding with newest sources
Whenever you like to update your sources and build a new version you have to run these four simple commands:
Code:
$ cd ~/cm11
$ repo sync
$ . build/envsetup.sh
$ brunch mako
Compiling takes less time than it took for creating the ROM the first time because it's only building new parts while reusing old
parts that haven't changed.
Happy building!
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Nice Tutorial, thank you for the work
Now i have to organize a linux-computer... :/
edited to linux, my brain is out of order today...
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Thank you for your post. I knew how to compile but I was lazy to compile for myself any rom until now. I planned to wait until
someone will post it, but your post just got me excited and I will compile.
Thank you for your instructions and all. Good luck!
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This is what I keep getting...
bruce@BatComputer-Main:~/cm11$ repo init -u git://github.com/CyanogenMod/android.git -b cm-11.0
bash: /home/bruce/bin/repo: Permission denied
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Device: 16GB Nexus 4 (Mako)
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bruce@BatComputer-Main:~/cm11$ repo init -u git://github.com/CyanogenMod/android.git -b cm-11.0
bash: /home/bruce/bin/repo: Permission denied
try chmod a+x /home/bruce/bin/repo
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Nice Tutorial, thank you for the work
Now i have to organize a linux-computer... :/
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edited to linux, my brain is out of order today...
If you have a quite new PC running Windows, you could use a virtual machine to install Linux ontop of your Windows
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@Raum1807 How's cm11? What features have been implemented so far?
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Originally Posted by B4tnam
bruce@BatComputer-Main:~/cm11$ repo init -u git://github.com/CyanogenMod/android.git -b cm-11.0
bash: /home/bruce/bin/repo: Permission denied
Of course, because you didn't hit the thanks button. (joking, but of course, just press it now)
Your problem is with folder permissions. I don't know how you created the folders but somehow you just don't have enough
permisions now.
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permisions now.
Try to:
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Bah my linux box broke.. @op Can you release the cm11 build you made?
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