Re: [android-building] What is the right 'release tag' to download to be able to build on OSX 10.8?

[Jean-Baptiste Queru]

None of the tagged releases can be built on MacOS 10.8. They're too old.

Only the master branch is buildable on 10.8 IIRC. repo init -b master.

JBQ

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:41 AM, RW <wil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I am new to Android and am a little confused by reading the past
> threads. I need to build Android on a mac - OSX 10.8.
> I don't need to build the emulator, which I understand doesn't work today. I
> just need the arm images and will be using the emulator provided with the
> android SDK
>
> I am confused on which release to check out.
>
> a) According to posts I read by Al Sutton, only the 'master' branch will be
> closest to a successful lion compilation. However, if I check out just the
> master, with repo init without a -b, it checks out ICS and that does not
> compile - in previous posts, Al has confirmed that ICS won't compile on 10.8
> (yes, I've diligently followed the 10.5 SDK download, strnlen fixes,
> changing CC to gcc-4.2 etc. it always fails with (Assertion failed:
> (LastChar > FirstChar && "Invalid start/end range" around the GL test
> files). So the question is , am I checking out the right "master" ?
>
> b) It seems to check out JB, I need to use -b android_4.1.1 but its upto r6
> now. Should I be checking out JB instead of the master branch with git for
> an easier OSX 10.8 compilation possibility?
>
> thank you
>
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[Al Sutton]

You will need to set BUILD_MAC_SDK_EXPERIMENTAL=1 in your environment to ensure master will build on 10.8

Al.

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On 4 Oct 2012, at 18:28, RW <wil...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks.

Do you know if -b master will work out of the box (sans emulator)? Or do I have to revert to gcc-4.2, 10.5 SDK  et al ?

[Al Sutton]

master will compile with Xcode without any further modification if you set that environment variable.

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On 4 Oct 2012, at 20:35, RW <wil...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks.

(PS Not sure who the moderator is, but looks like I need to be approved in this group - my posts are not showing up - only responses to it are, and Im being shown as 'unknown')

master is still checking out (8G and counting)

I have added export BUILD_MAC_SDK_EXPERIMENTAL=1 to my environment in .bashrc

In the meantime, Al could you please let me know if these are correct:

a) I don't need the Xcode 3.x and 10.5SDK hack ? (ie download/extract the SDK like I did for previous builds)

b) I don't need to install gcc-4.2 ?

c) I don't need any of the other mods (like commenting out emulator Android.mk, manually adding dylib1.o, etc)

Based on what I've read, I need none of the above (and the emulator build won't work, which is fine).

Building android takes forever on my mac and each one of these steps require rebuilding all over again, so I am trying to save build time :-)

thanks

[Jean-Baptiste Queru]

Correct.

JBQ

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Wyllys Ingersoll <wyl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So just to clarify - on OS/X 10.8, we can only build the "master" branch,
> not ICS or JB.
>
> Correct?
>
>
>
> On Friday, October 5, 2012 7:48:50 AM UTC-4, RW wrote:
>>
>> Thanks! It worked like a charm.

[Jean-Baptiste Queru]

That should work with the right version of XCode, but I'm not a MacOS expert.

JBQ

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 2:51 AM, sebastian mazur <sebast...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Is it possible to build latest android-4.1.2_r1 tag version on ox X 10.8 ?
> Is it new enough ?
>
> W dniu piątek, 12 października 2012 23:23:10 UTC+2 użytkownik Chris Sarbora
> napisał:
>>
>> Wyllys, the other release tags were created before 10.8 was released, so
>> they don't correctly pick up the OS in the environment setup scripts.
>>
>> They could be modified to work, but no one has undertaken the task.
>>
>> On Friday, October 12, 2012 1:20:12 PM UTC-7, Wyllys Ingersoll wrote:
>>>
>>> So what is the main issue - compiler incompatibilities? Would using a
>>> different toolchain (i.e. different gcc) help?

[Al Sutton]

You'll need to tweak it because 10.8 was released after the freeze for 4.1.

You can find the patches you'll need in the projects at https://github.com/funkyandroid/

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[sebastian mazur]

Thanks, that was helpfull

2012/12/18 Al Sutton <a...@funkyandroid.com>