CyanogenMod Build Environment Setup (Cont.)

Build Packages

The next step, continuing from yesterday’s start of a CyanogenMod build environment, is to install build packages. These were the packages I used for Ubuntu 16.04:

sudo apt-get install bison build-essential curl flex git gnupg gperf \
                     libesd0-dev liblz4-tool libncurses5-dev libsdl1.2-dev \
                     libxml2 libxml2-utils lzop maven openjdk-8-jdk pngcrush \
                     schedtool squashfs-tools xsltproc zip zlib1g-dev \
                     g++-multilib gcc-multilib lib32ncurses5-dev lib32z1-dev \
                     lib32readline6-dev libwxgtk3.0-dev

After that, I installed the Java 7 JDK:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openjdk-r/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk

Create Directories

Create some necessary directories

mkdir -p ~/bin
mkdir -p ~/android/system

Install repo and initialize repository

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

~/bin should already be in path but need to start a new shell to get it.

Now initialize Cyanogenmod Source repository

$ cd ~/android/system/
$ repo init -u https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android.git -b cm-12.1

Note the cm-12.1. Instructions said cm-13 but the site says 12.1 is latest build supported on jem.

And finally…

$ repo sync

Started at 2:15pm… Done by 4:30.

Next step:

Still on this page: https://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Build_for_jem

In Prepare the device-specific code section. (envsetup and breakfast coming up.)

Ran those. Had errors in breakfast so will take the advice in the note from that page: Do next step to read out Blobs from device, then repeat breakfast step.