There are a lot of toturials for building CM9 on ubuntu or CM7 on Mac but I couldn't find a decent toturial for building CM9 on Mac (specially Lion). Development in AOSP/CM land is rapid and guides frequently need updating. I had to spend a little time to figure everything out and I decided to share it here.
This tutorial is for building CM9 (ICS) for Galaxy Nexus GSM (maguro) on Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 using Xcode 4.3 and homebrew . You can easily make the instructions work for most other cm9 devices, but I wouldn't know anything about that.
DISCLAIMER: I'm not responsible if you blow yourself up, blah blah blah
However, I've tried to make this as noob friendly as possible because, well I'm a noob myself
Instrunctions:
UPADTE (MAY 29TH) : The Xcode 4.3 default compiler (llvm-gcc) used to be incompatible with CM9. Thanks to jocelyn and topprospect, the LLVM compatibility patches from mainline AOSP are now merged into CM9. Therefore, you can now use Xcode 4.3 and its command line tools without installing another compiler. However, since GCC is still the only officially supported compiler, incompatibilites with llvm-gcc could still be introduced with future updates. Therefore, if your build fails, it might be worth it to try installing and compiling with GCC 4.2. See the Troubleshooting section for more info.
Now that we have Xcode 4.3 and Xcode command line tools (CLT) installed, let's continue.
This tutorial is for building CM9 (ICS) for Galaxy Nexus GSM (maguro) on Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 using Xcode 4.3 and homebrew . You can easily make the instructions work for most other cm9 devices, but I wouldn't know anything about that.
DISCLAIMER: I'm not responsible if you blow yourself up, blah blah blah
However, I've tried to make this as noob friendly as possible because, well I'm a noob myself
Instrunctions:
UPADTE (MAY 29TH) : The Xcode 4.3 default compiler (llvm-gcc) used to be incompatible with CM9. Thanks to jocelyn and topprospect, the LLVM compatibility patches from mainline AOSP are now merged into CM9. Therefore, you can now use Xcode 4.3 and its command line tools without installing another compiler. However, since GCC is still the only officially supported compiler, incompatibilites with llvm-gcc could still be introduced with future updates. Therefore, if your build fails, it might be worth it to try installing and compiling with GCC 4.2. See the Troubleshooting section for more info.
Now that we have Xcode 4.3 and Xcode command line tools (CLT) installed, let's continue.
- Open Terminal and run
Code:
java
- If you don't have adb and fastboot working, download the android-sdk from google (version r18 as of now) and put it in /usr/local/ and rename the folder to "android-sdk".
- Install the homebrew package manager
Code:
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(/usr/bin/curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/master/Library/Contributions/install_homebrew.rb)"
- To make sure that homebrew and android-sdk executables are in $PATH:
Code:
touch ~/.bash_profile && echo "PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:$PATH:/usr/local/android-sdk/tools:/usr/local/android-sdk/platform-tools" >> ~/.bash_profile
- At this point you can run
Code:
brew doctor
- Now we have to install a bunch of packages:
Code:
brew install git coreutils findutils gnu-sed gnupg pngcrush repo
- We now need to create a couple of symlinks so that the gnu versions of 'sed' and 'find' are used rather than the osx provided versions :
Code:
ln -s /usr/local/bin/gfind /usr/local/bin/find && ln -s /usr/local/bin/gsed /usr/local/bin/sed && ln -s /usr/local/bin/gstat /usr/local/bin/stat
- It's time to create a case sensitive image which will hold our working directory:
Code:
hdiutil create -type SPARSE -fs "Case-sensitive Journaled HFS+" -size 40g -volname "android" -attach ~/Desktop/Android
- Now we need to create a working directory inside the mounted volume:
Code:
cd /Volumes/android && mkdir cm9 && cd cm9
- We can initialize and download the source now:
Code:
repo init -u git://github.com/CyanogenMod/android.git -b ics && repo sync && say 'finished'
- Now we need to get the required proprietry files for our device. We can get these from the device itself. Connect your phone (make sure USB Debugging is enabled) and run the following (for maguro):
Code:
cd /Volumes/android/cm9/device/samsung/maguro/ && ./extract-files.sh
For Google devices,we can also get them directly from google. For maguro, download the 3 files and extract them to /Volumes/android/cm9. Then,
Code:cd /Volumes/android/cm9 /Volumes/android/cm9/extract-broadcom-maguro.sh /Volumes/android/cm9/extract-imgtec-maguro.sh /Volumes/android/cm9/extract-samsung-maguro.sh
- We also need the prebuilts (like ROM manager and Term.apk):
Code:
/Volumes/android/cm9/vendor/cm/get-prebuilts
- You can optionally tell the build to use the ccache tool. CCache acts as a compiler cache that can be used to speed-up rebuilds :
Code:
export USE_CCACHE=1 && /Volumes/android/cm9/prebuilt/darwin-x86/ccache/ccache -M 20G
- Before starting the build, we need to workaround an issue with Lion and compiling the QEMU emulator.
[This step doesn't seem to be needed anymore. QEMU is automatically ignored on OS X/Darwin] - If you build now, you're probably gonna get kernel build errors regarding the missing elf.h header (this error might be device specific). Fortunately, we already have this file downloaded, so we only need to copy it to /usr/local/include:
Code:
cp /Volumes/android/cm9/external/elfutils/libelf/elf.h /usr/local/include
- FINALLY, we are ready to build:
Code:
cd /Volumes/android/cm9 && source build/envsetup.sh && brunch
- You should now see a beautiful zip file waiting to be flashed:
- The extract script for maguro seems to be a little outdated, as it doesn't pull the gps proprietary blob. You can either use the google provided scripts, or add koush's git repository for your device to your local_manifest.xml.
- As explained above, the CM9 source is currently compatible with llvm-gcc. In the future, if llvm-gcc fails to build correctly, you should try installing and compiling using GCC4.2 (the Xcode 3 compiler). You can install apple-gcc4.2 from homebrew:
Code:brew install https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-dupes/master/apple-gcc42.rb
So now you have GCC 4.2 installed, but it won't be used unless we update the corresposing environment variables:
Code:export CC=/usr/local/bin/gcc-4.2 && export CXX=/usr/local/bin/g++-4.2
If you use this method, the build might fail while compiling "external/zlib/x86/adler32.c". It appears that a recent change in zlib has introduced an incompatibility with gcc 4.2. you have to revert the following 2 commits:Code:cd external/zlib git revert dd6786cae3f4493faa6661d5f74db587932f15d7 git revert 13bf40af68236c961542bdee1d4b7c0176bf15a0
Code:nano /Volumes/android/cm9/.repo/local_manifest.xml
Code:<project name="dferg/android_external_zlib" path="external/zlib" remote="github" />
- If you get a build error, and your error is not covered here, copy the last 20-30 lines of the build output AND the output from the following command into pastebin and post the link. Hopefully me or someone else will help you.
Code:
echo -e "\nENV:\n$(env)\n\nWHICH GCC\n:$(which gcc)\n\nWHICH G++:\n$(which g++)\n\nWHICH CC:\n$(which cc)\n\nWHICH C++:\n$(which c++)\n\nBREW DOCTOR:\n$(brew doctor)\n\nBREW LIST:\n$(brew list)\n\n/USR/BIN:\n$(ls -l /usr/bin | grep gcc)\n\n/USR/LOCAL/BIN:\n$(ls -l /usr/local/bin | grep gcc)\n\n"
- To quickly setup your environment, add an alias like the following to ~/.bash_profile:
Code:alias cm9env="hdiutil attach PATH-TO-DISK-IMAGE -mountpoint /Volumes/android && cd /Volumes/android/cm9 && source ./build/envsetup.sh && export USE_CCACHE=1" alias cm9build="cm9env && make clobber && reposync && brunch maguro"
- To clear your output directory for a new build, run "make clobber". You probably don't need this if you've only changed a few lines of code.
- To cherry pick yet-to-be-merged changes from the gerrit instance:
1. Pick an open commit from CM Gerrit
2. Under list of Patch Sets pick the latest and open cherry-pick tab
3. Check what Git repository the url is pointing e.g. http://review.cyanog...frameworks_base
4. In your CM9 working tree go to the corresponding directory, which in this case is something like ~/your-working-directory/frameworks/base/
5. Now simply paste the whole line seen in CM Gerrit cherry-pick tab e.g. "git fetch http://review.cyanog....rameworks_base refs/changes/00/13100/4 && git cherry-pick FETCH_HEAD"
It should be now included in your next compiled build. When doing repo sync again, cherry picks will be lost.[CREDIT Fihlvein from xda]
Enjoy your custom built CM9!
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