Comments on: Compiling Android Source on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

By: PaulB

PaulB — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 00:18:42 +0000

It’s gotten simpler. See http://groups.google.com/group/android-building/msg/d4730b36e861569d

By: Vincent

Vincent — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 18:54:03 +0000

Hi,

The link to the android source setup changed:
http://source.android.com/source/download.html

cheers,
Vincent

By: Eleonora

Eleonora — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 21:33:50 +0000

Hi! I got to the make part, but then I got this:
MacBook-de-Eleonora:mydroid Eleonora$ make
============================================
PLATFORM_VERSION_CODENAME=AOSP
PLATFORM_VERSION=AOSP
TARGET_PRODUCT=generic
TARGET_BUILD_VARIANT=eng
TARGET_SIMULATOR=
TARGET_BUILD_TYPE=release
TARGET_BUILD_APPS=
TARGET_ARCH=arm
HOST_ARCH=x86
HOST_OS=darwin
HOST_BUILD_TYPE=release
BUILD_ID=OPENMASTER
============================================
build/core/config.mk:200: *** faltando o separador. Pare.
Which separator is it? Can anyone tell me how to put it there in the file so it’ll work?

By: Building Eclair on Snow Leopard « Vishvesh's Blog

Building Eclair on Snow Leopard « Vishvesh's Blog — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 05:43:30 +0000

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Building Eclair on Snow Leopard « Vishvesh's Blog — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 05:43:30 +0000

By: Vishvesh

Vishvesh — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:41:56 +0000

I am having a different problem, I get few warnings like these

ld: warning: in out/host/darwin-x86/obj/EXECUTABLES/emulator_intermediates/distrib/libpng-1.2.19/pngerror.o, file is not of required architecture
ld: warning: in out/host/darwin-x86/obj/EXECUTABLES/emulator_intermediates/distrib/libpng-1.2.19/pngget.o, file is not of required architecture

And then the following error is throw.

Undefined symbols:
“_main”, referenced from:
start in crt1.10.6.o
ld: symbol(s) not found
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [out/host/darwin-x86/obj/EXECUTABLES/emulator_intermediates/emulator] Error 1

Any ideas on how to resolve this errors.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:09:32 +0000

Thanks Justin, was looking for something like this!
Thanks to Jeremy as well, your tips were right on.

By: Justin Lee

Justin Lee — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:27:43 +0000

Thanks Jeremy for your additional insights to get it to work. You’re welcome.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 03:13:29 +0000

well – I solved my own problem: I don’t know how it ended up there, but my copy of “stddef.h” in /usr/local seems superfluous. I removed it (renamed it) and the compile completed just fine.

Thanks for this quick HOWTO!

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 02:11:08 +0000

In order to get this to work, I had to install the MacOSX10.4.sdk into /Developer/SDKs. Since I had a fresh install of Snow Leopard I had only installed XCode 3.2.x which does not come with the 10.4 SDK. I downloaded XCode 3.1.4 from Apple’s developer website, navigated through the Packages directory and installed the “MacOSX10.4.Universal.pkg” file into /Developer.

I also had problems compiling qemu (which is forced to use gcc-4.0 in the makefile). I don’t know if my installation of gcc-4.0 was broken to begin with, but it had trouble finding some default include files (stdarg.h in particular). I solved this problem by changing the following lines in
# We are on Snow Leopard or above
MY_CC := gcc-4.0
with these lines:
# We are on Snow Leopard or above
MY_CC := gcc-4.0 -I/Developer/usr/lib/gcc/i686-apple-darwin10/4.0.1/include/

All of the host code seems to compile OK, but I am still having issues compiling the ARM target code. I get ridiculous errors about lines of code in stddef.h – specifically:

/usr/include/stddef.h:74: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘ptrdiff_t’
/usr/include/stddef.h:83: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘size_t’

anyone else run into this issue?