You have Windows but you want to compile Android as well. You can, providing you install VmPlayer and a linux vm appliance. I will not get into this. I will assume you have an up-t0-date Vmware appliance up and running with reasonable virtual RAM (>1GB) and disk space (>8GB).
Credits for compiling Android in x86 go to the guys at virtuallyshocking.com
Disclaimer: you can break, erase, burn, incinerate your gear while attempting the steps outlined below. Restrain from following them if you don’t feel confident. Moreover: THIS WILL wipe whatever you have installed on your PC and THIS IS at a rather experimental stage, so don’t expect everything to function appropriately (quoting virtuallyshocking.com). Beware:The build process produces an installer, not a live image!
When customizing your appliance, please consider adding/using:
- 1 gb stick (512mb may also work, gotta try)
- A recent, fully updated distro (>Ubuntu 6.06, for example)
- A lot of disk space. My Vmware Ubuntu 8.10 appliance had a 7.92GB disk and I had to add another 8GB virtual disk. Of course you may not need it depending on your disk usage, but be warned.
- A lot of free time, especially if you want to try cupcake, which is quite raw and sometimes needs header mending.
- A flat connection. Android source is quite heavy. OF course you need a working ethernet interface on the VM to download the source.
- Some RAM: I got some freezes that disappeared after raising the RAM size of the VM to 1GB. So you need at least 2GB of physical memory (my educated guess).
- Compiling time is quite relevant. Have something to do while fetching the source and dowloading.
In a nutshell:
- Follow these instructions to prepare the environment.
- Create a local_manifest.xml file into mydroid/.repo and put into the file:
the local_manifest.xml provided by virtuallyshocking.com does not work for me due that /pre e the stray /. - Do a repo sync again, to fetch the eee701 relevants.
- Compile with
$> TARGET_ARCH=x86 TARGET_PRODUCT=eee_701 DISABLE_DEXPREOPT=true make -j8 installer_img
It will take a WHILE. - Put in the usb stick…
dd if=out/target/product/eee_701/installer.img of=/dev/
And you’re set.
Update (4/01/2009): the build process occasionally fails with some killed processes. Restart it again using the make command above, until you get a positive status from the build process, something like:
I/diskutils( 2514): Wrote 401227776 bytes to out/target/product/eee_701/installer.img @ 5599232
File edit complete. Wrote 2 images.
Done with bootable installer image -[ out/target/product/eee_701/installer.img ]
then copy the installer.img image on the usb stick ( I used a 1gb one):
:~/mydroid/out/target/product/eee_701$ sudo dd if=installer.img of=/dev/sdc1
794584+0 records in
794584+0 records out
406827008 bytes (407 MB) copied, 493.435 s, 824 kB/s
I’m now trying to boot it as a vmware image too, following http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting/msg/fe85782f1bc3ad2f and it works. I just have to solve the VESAFB issue, as you can see.
Ref: http://virtuallyshocking.com/2008/12/20/building-android-for-the-asus-eeepc-701/