Initializing and Building

So last I checked Google had relatively decent instructions for building in Ubuntu 10.04-11.10 @source.android.com but it seems they're instructions for 12.04 are a bit to be desired (I haven't build anything in 10.04-11.10 since the release of 12.04 so if something is lacking in the Google instructions feel free to shoot a fix over).

The following should be a bit more precise (if you parden the pun).

Install the required build dependencies.

sudo apt-get install git-core gnupg flex bison gperf \
zip curl pngcrush openjdk-6-jdk libc6-dev libgl1-mesa-dev:i386 \
libncurses5-dev:i386 libreadline6-dev:i386 libx11-dev:i386 libxml2-utils \
zlib1g-dev zlib1g-dev:i386 g++-multilib tofrodos python-markdown \
mingw32 xsltproc x11proto-core-dev build-essential schedtool

Please note I have only tested this on a 64 bit machine (while none of the listed dependencies should require 64 bit), I cannot guarantee this will work on a 32 bit machine.

Download the repo binaries.

mkdir ~/bin
curl https://dl-ssl.google.com/dl/googlesource/git-repo/repo > ~/bin/repo
chmod a+x ~/bin/repo

Set your path for repo to work (especially important for Ubuntu 12.04).

PATH=~/bin:$PATH

That's if for initializing a build environment head on over to the index to find the manifest that's right for you.

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