Finally!!!
So my last weekend project had been to compile Android ICS from source. Given that the size of the repo itself is in excess of 6Gigs, just getting it down itself took the better part of Friday night and Saturday night. When I got down to running make on it, it was Sunday afternoon.
Needless to say, things didn’t work too well. I’m running this on a 32
bit Ubuntu 10.04 Virtualbox with a piddly 1GB RAM. When make failed
the first time, realized that swap was a measly 300Mb. First steps
first, went on to increase memory to 2GB (that’s all I can spare) and
increased swap to 2Gs.
Compilation next round started and that failed too - ran out of disk space - and this was Sunday night. Things kind of stayed there and finally this evening, resized the disk in virtualbox to 50Gigs. Again started the compilation and this time ran into linker errors when building webcore. One more round of troubleshooting involved deleting the previously built static library and then running make again. Surprisingly, this time make completed successfully - to the point where I wasn’t sure if it had succeeded or just failed silently on something else.
The next step was to run the emulator to see if it really would boot up.
Over at source.android.com, they oversimplify it when they say that you
just run emulator from the android root folder. That didn’t work for
me - and this time it was because I hadn’t sourced the envSetup.sh
file… this thread
http://groups.google.com/group/android-platform/browse_thread/thread/91ff18e034acf951
helped in tracking that one down.
So finally, after all that trouble, I have my very own ICS build running!!!!
For now, its onward ahoy to setting up Eclipse and starting with a fix I’ve been mulling about for sometime now..
Signing off from cloud nine R
