How to build AICP on OS X 10.8.X?

This is a guide to build AICP on OS X Mountain Lion(10.8.X).

Pre Requirements:

  1. Go to App Store on your OS X and download Xcode 4. Once it is installed, open Xcode and go to preferences.
    There you will find a tab "DOWNLOADS", open it and find "Command line tools". Click on INSTALL next to it. It will take a few minutes to download and install
  2. Make sure you have the android-sdk downloaded and adb and fastboot are setup, and they work.
    It's recommended to place the android-sdk to /usr/local/

Initializing the build environment

First we need to set up our OS X to be able to build Android. This needs some extra things compared to, for example, building in Linux. But the main stuff is pretty much the same. So let’s get started then, shall we?

Open up Terminal and type

java

If you don’t have Java installed you will get a prompt to install it.

Next we will install homebrew (you can also use macports if you like)

ruby <(curl -fsSk https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)

Now make sure android-sdk and homebrew are in $PATH

touch ~/.bash_profile && echo "PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:$PATH:/usr/local/android-sdk/tools:/usr/local/android-sdk/platform-tools" >> ~/.bash_profile

Now run this and see if you need to update anything.

brew doctor

If you do (and you probably will once a day) type:

brew update

Now we need to get our dev packages

brew install git coreutils findutils gnu-sed gnupg pngcrush repo

Once that is done, run

brew outdated

if it shows anything, run

brew upgrade

Now run this to correct a few symlinks [Not sure if these are needed anymore] :

ln -s /usr/local/bin/gfind /usr/local/bin/find && ln -s /usr/local/bin/gsed /usr/local/bin/sed

Now to create our case sensitive image for our AICP project [NOTE: the 60g can be changed to anything. It only takes up what it needs but I used 60GB]:

hdiutil create -type SPARSE -fs "Case-sensitive Journaled HFS+" -size 60g -volname "android" -attach ~/Desktop/Android

Now to create our working directory

cd /Volumes/Android && mkdir aicp && cd aicp

Download the Source

Initializing Repository

  1. Repo initialization:

    repo init -u https://github.com/AICP/platform_manifest.git -b n7.1

  2. sync repo:

    repo sync

Building

After the sync is finished, please read the instructions from the Android site on how to build.

  1. Build:

    . build/envsetup.sh
    brunch

  2. You can also build (and see how long it took) for specific devices like this:

    . build/envsetup.sh
    time brunch m7

Remember to make clobber every now and then!