build android adb on debian sid amd64

16 March 2010 - 3:18pm — abate

I've installed android on my freerunner. I've to say that it works ! very nice and functional interface, finger friendly, voice, sms, wifi work out of the box. I'm very impressed.

Following the lead from http://lackingrhoticity.blogspot.com/2010/02/how-to-build-adb-android-debugger.html I've decided to build adb to connect to my phone without downloading the precompiled sdk and without checking-out the entire android git repository. It's actually very easy, and I'm sure with a minimal effort, it should be possible to create a debian package. The android instructions give some hints regarding the cross-compilation of android on a x64 machine.

Cutting and pasting from Lacking Rhoticity blog you need to :

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential libncurses5-dev

$ git clone git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/system/core.git system/core

$ git clone git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/build.git build

$ git clone git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/external/zlib.git external/zlib

$ git clone git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/bionic.git bionic

$ echo "include build/core/main.mk" >Makefile

Now edit build/core/main.mk and comment out the parts labelled

 # Check for the correct version of java

and

 # Check for the correct version of javac

Since adb doesn't need Java, these checks are unnecessary.

Also edit build/target/product/sdk.mk and comment out the "include" lines after

 # include available languages for TTS in the system image

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Now, since we are one a x64 machine we need to install the rest of the libraries to cross compile abd. I think this is the minimum you need to successfully build adb

sudo apt-get install libc6-dev-i386 lib32ncurses5-dev ia32-libs g++-multilib

The result should be something like this :

$make out/host/linux-x86/bin/adb

============================================

PLATFORM_VERSION_CODENAME=REL

PLATFORM_VERSION=2.1-update1

TARGET_PRODUCT=generic

TARGET_BUILD_VARIANT=eng

TARGET_SIMULATOR=

TARGET_BUILD_TYPE=release

TARGET_ARCH=arm

HOST_ARCH=x86

HOST_OS=linux

HOST_BUILD_TYPE=release

BUILD_ID=ECLAIR

============================================

find: `frameworks/base/api': No such file or directory

[ ... ]

host Executable: adb (out/host/linux-x86/obj/EXECUTABLES/adb_intermediates/adb)

true

host C: acp <= build/tools/acp/acp.c

host C++: libhost <= build/libs/host/pseudolocalize.cpp

host C: libhost <= build/libs/host/CopyFile.c

host StaticLib: libhost (out/host/linux-x86/obj/STATIC_LIBRARIES/libhost_intermediates/libhost.a)

ar crs  out/host/linux-x86/obj/STATIC_LIBRARIES/libhost_intermediates/libhost.a out/host/linux-x86/obj/STATIC_LIBRARIES/libhost_intermediates/pseudolocalize.o out/host/linux-x86/obj/STATIC_LIBRARIES/libhost_intermediates/CopyFile.o

host Executable: acp (out/host/linux-x86/obj/EXECUTABLES/acp_intermediates/acp)

true

Install: out/host/linux-x86/bin/acp

Notice file: system/core/adb/NOTICE -- out/host/linux-x86/obj/NOTICE_FILES/src//bin/adb.txt

Notice file: system/core/libzipfile/NOTICE -- out/host/linux-x86/obj/NOTICE_FILES/src//lib/libzipfile.a.txt

Notice file: external/zlib/NOTICE -- out/host/linux-x86/obj/NOTICE_FILES/src//lib/libunz.a.txt

Notice file: system/core/liblog/NOTICE -- out/host/linux-x86/obj/NOTICE_FILES/src//lib/liblog.a.txt

Notice file: system/core/libcutils/NOTICE -- out/host/linux-x86/obj/NOTICE_FILES/src//lib/libcutils.a.txt

Install: out/host/linux-x86/bin/adb

Running abd :

$ADBHOST=192.168.0.202 ./out/host/linux-x86/bin/adb devices

* daemon not running. starting it now *

* daemon started successfully *

List of devices attached

emulator-5554    device

 

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$ sudo apt-get install build-essential libncurses5-dev

$ git clone https://android.googlesource.com/system/core.git system/core

$ git clone https://android.googlesource.com/platform/build.git build

$ git clone https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/zlib external/zlib

$ git clone https://android.googlesource.com/platform/bionic.git bionic

$ echo "include build/core/main.mk" >Makefile