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文章目录
  1. 1. Background
  2. 2. Steps
    1. 2.1. Install Linux
    2. 2.2. Install JDK
    3. 2.3. Install some necessary tools
    4. 2.4. Install repo and download source
    5. 2.5. Install mingw32
    6. 2.6. Compile the source
  3. 3. More
  4. 4. References

Background

In order to practice my English, I am trying to write some posts in English. So this article may confuse some guys, I’m really sorry for that in advance. By the way, if there some typos, grammatical mistake and other mistakes, please feel free to point it out. I really appreciate it much. Thanks.

For some reasons, I decided to compile the appt from scratch.
Target: aapt for windows.
Then I moved on.
However,It’s somehow ridiculous, if we want to build aapt for windows we have to build it on linux according to the official manual.

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Full Windows SDK builds are only supported on Linux -- most of the framework is not designed to be built on Windows so technically the Windows SDK is built on top of a Linux SDK where a few binaries are replaced.
http://tools.android.com/build

It is said that Firefox for android also has to be built on a *unix system. But it has nothing to do with this article.

Steps

Anyway, let’s do it step by step.

Install Linux

First Install Linux 64 bit(important, other versions may be different with this post), I chose the ubuntu-14.04.2-desktop.
http://releases.ubuntu.com/14.04.2/ubuntu-14.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent
I encountered the low screen resolution in Ubuntu, as installed it on a virtual machine. Eventually solved it through this link.http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2014/10/31/solutions-for-low-screen-resolution-in-ubuntu-14-0414-10-and-virtualbox/

Install JDK

Install Java 7: For the latest version of Android

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$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk

Optionally, update the default Java version by running:

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$ sudo update-alternatives --config java
$ sudo update-alternatives --config javac

Install some necessary tools

Install some other necessary tools.

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$ sudo apt-get install bison g++-multilib git gperf libxml2-utils make python-networkx zlib1g-dev:i386 zip

Something wrong happens.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
g++-multilib : Depends: gcc-multilib (>= 4:4.8.2-1ubuntu6) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: g++ (>= 4:4.8.2-1ubuntu6) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
http://www.cnblogs.com/wanyuanchun/p/3738938.html

So intall gcc-multilib and g++ first.

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$ sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib g++

Install repo and download source

Install repo to download source
http://source.android.com/source/downloading.html#installing-repo

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$ mkdir ~/bin
$ PATH=~/bin:$PATH
$ curl https://storage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > ~/bin/repo
$ chmod a+x ~/bin/repo

config git 

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$ git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
$ git config --global user.name "Your Name"

init source

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$ mkdir ~/android
$ repo init -u https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest -b master -g all,-notdefault,tools

For guys in mainland China, you should try the command below, for two reasons. One is Google is blocked ,the other is it more faster.

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$ repo init -u git://aosp.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/android/platform/manifest -b master -g all,-notdefault,tools

Then start the downloading.

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$ repo sync

And wait for the downloading to end, about 33G when the time I downloaded it.
source size
So better downloaded at night, then have a good sleep. When the time you wake up, things is ready.

Install mingw32

For the build of windows’ EXE and DLL files.

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$ sudo apt-get install mingw32 tofrodos

Compile the source

When source downloaded, we can compile it now.

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$ cd ~/android
$ . build/envsetup.sh
$ lunch sdk-eng
$ make win_sdk

Note that this will build both a Linux SDK and a Windows SDK.
The result is located at out/host/windows/sdk/android-sdk_eng.${USER}_windows/
If you encounter error,“error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5”.
Install lib32ncurses5, then use make win_sdk to build it again.

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$ sudo apt-get install lib32ncurses5

Later I got another error when building libwebviewchromium.
“collect2: error: ld terminated with signal 9 [Killed]
make: ** [out/target/product/generic/obj/SHA-j4 win-sdkRED_LIBRARIES/libwebviewchromium_intermediates/LINKED/libwebviewchromium.so] Error 1 “*
This because the system does not have a swap file. Let’s create it.

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$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1G count=2

Verify that file has been created on the server:

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$ ls -lh /swapfile

Type the following chmod command and chown command to secure and set correct file permission for security reasons.

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sudo chown root:root /swapfile
sudo chmod 0600 /swapfile

Turn on the swap file

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sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile

Verify new swap file and settings on Ubuntu

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swapon -s

Now we can build the window SDK.

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make win_sdk

After some hours, which depends on your machine, all things will finish.
We can get appt.exe from the out folder.

If ou only want to compile some tools, not all of them.
Just Do below.
For linux:

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sudo make aapt

For windows(Please execute make aapt first to generate some libraries):

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sudo USE_MINGW=1 make aapt

More

For custom needs, you can modify the source and rebuild it.
Due to NDA(Non-Disclosure Agreement), I skip this chapter.

References

文章目录
  1. 1. Background
  2. 2. Steps
    1. 2.1. Install Linux
    2. 2.2. Install JDK
    3. 2.3. Install some necessary tools
    4. 2.4. Install repo and download source
    5. 2.5. Install mingw32
    6. 2.6. Compile the source
  3. 3. More
  4. 4. References