How to Build Your Own CyanogenMod 11

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Overview

I. PreparationII. Installation of the required packagesIII. Installing JavaIV. The sourcesV. Building the ROMVI. Rebuilding with newest sources

I. Preparation

Things you need for building:

A computerAn internet connectionAn open mindTime

Patience

First of all, you need a running up-to-date Ubuntu/Linux system. I am using Ubuntu 13.10 64-bit.

Use the terminal to make the steps. A terminal window can be opened by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T. Every single command for theterminal is marked with a $ sign. Just paste every command (without the $ sign) to your terminal window and there shouldn't beany problem.

IMPORTANT: INSTALL EVERYTHING AS A NORMAL USER. DON'T INSTALL AS ROOT!

II. Installation of the required packages (Ubuntu 13.10 64-bit)

Install packages:

Code:

$ sudo apt-get install bison build-essential curl flex \g++-multilib gcc-multilib git-core gnupg gperf \lib32ncurses5-dev lib32readline-gplv2-dev lib32z1-dev \libesd0-dev libncurses5-dev libsdl1.2-dev \libwxgtk2.8-dev libxml2 libxml2-utils lzop \openjdk-6-jdk openjdk-6-jre pngcrush schedtool \squashfs-tools xsltproc zip zlib1g-dev

III. Installing Java

You need a version 6 Java Development Kit for building CM11.0. Usually, the SUN JDK 6 is recommended. But there isanother way: you can use the OpenJDK 6. When you installed the required packages as described above, you will just need toconfigure your Java installation.

Check your Java version:

Code:

$ java -version

Verify the symlinks. Javac, Java, Javaws, Javadoc, Javah, Javap and Jar should all point to the right Java location and version:

Code:

$ ls -la /etc/alternatives/java* && ls -la /etc/alternatives/jar

If they are pointing to the wrong versions you have to change that to OpenJDK6.

Select the default Java version for your system:

Code:

$ sudo update-alternatives --config javac $ sudo update-alternatives --config java $ sudo update-alternatives --config javaws $ sudo update-alternatives --config javadoc $ sudo update-alternatives --config javah $ sudo update-alternatives --config javap $ sudo update-alternatives --config jar

That's it.



IV. The sources

Install repo:

Repo is a tool that makes it quite easy to download and maintain the sources of Cyanogenmod.

Code:

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

Create the working directory:

Code:

$ mkdir ~/cm11$ cd ~/cm11

Initialize Repo:

Code:

$ repo init -u git://github.com/CyanogenMod/android.git -b cm-11.0

and enter your credentials.

Download the sources:

Code:

$ repo sync

Wait until it's finished - takes some time to download the hefty 12 GB of source code!

Have a break, have a KitKat!

If the process hangs use Ctrl+C to break out of it and resume the download with another

Code:

$ repo sync

If you are running into a lot of syncing errors the reason might be that the 'repo sync' command is establishing four threadsautomatically. This might be too much. So try to change the command to run with one thread only by using

Code:

$ repo sync -j1

Initialize the environment

Code:

$ . build/envsetup.sh

Obtain the proprietary files:

First get two missing repositories for the Nexus 4 by running

Code:

$ breakfast mako

Then create a file with the name local_manifest.xml in the local_manifests directory. To see this directory, you have to pressCtrl-H in your file manager.

Use this code

Code:

$ gedit ~/cm11/.repo/local_manifests/local_manifest.xml

Update: Branch revision is now cm-11.0



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Update: Branch revision is now cm-11.0Paste the following lines to the editor

Code:

Save the file.

Run

Code:

$ repo sync

again to get the files needed.

Download the necessary prebuilts from cyanogenmod by running

Code:

$ cd ~/cm11/vendor/cm$ . get-prebuilts$ croot

And you're done!

V. Building the ROM

Now build it:

Code:

$ brunch mako

And the building process starts. Now have patience. Building takes around half an hour on fast systems and a lot more onolder and slower machines.

Update 20131108: The errors from 20131106 are gone now. If you made the changes revert them, sync the repo andthen brunch again. There is no need to edit the source at the moment.

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When everything worked as it should you will find your new ROM-image in ~/cm11/out/target/product/mako

It is called cm-11-DATE-UNOFFICIAL-mako-zip. You can flash it via CWM/TWRP as usual.

VI. Rebuilding with newest sources

Whenever you like to update your sources and build a new version you have to run these four simple commands:

Code:

$ cd ~/cm11$ repo sync$ . build/envsetup.sh$ brunch mako

Compiling takes less time than it took for creating the ROM the first time because it's only building new parts while reusing oldparts that haven't changed.

Happy building!

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Nice Tutorial, thank you for the work

Now i have to organize a linux-computer... :/

edited to linux, my brain is out of order today...

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Thank you for your post. I knew how to compile but I was lazy to compile for myself any rom until now. I planned to wait untilsomeone will post it, but your post just got me excited and I will compile.

Thank you for your instructions and all. Good luck!

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This is what I keep getting...

bruce@BatComputer-Main:~/cm11$ repo init -u git://github.com/CyanogenMod/android.git -b cm-11.0bash: /home/bruce/bin/repo: Permission denied

TRENDING IN THEMER...



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try chmod a+x /home/bruce/bin/repo

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Nice Tutorial, thank you for the work

Now i have to organize a linux-computer... :/

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edited to linux, my brain is out of order today...

If you have a quite new PC running Windows, you could use a virtual machine to install Linux ontop of your Windowsinstallation. Have a look at VirtualBox for example. It's free. https://www.virtualbox.org/

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@Raum1807 How's cm11? What features have been implemented so far?

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Of course, because you didn't hit the thanks button. (joking, but of course, just press it now)

Your problem is with folder permissions. I don't know how you created the folders but somehow you just don't have enoughpermisions now.



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permisions now.

Try to:chmod a+x /home/bruce/bin/repo

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Bah my linux box broke.. @op Can you release the cm11 build you made?

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