I am at the moment researching a lot about this. I have seen a few places where a device was to be attached with the computer in order to compile the source for that device. Can anyone elaborate on this? That is whether it is a must that you have to have an android phone available to you in order to compile the AOSP.
Regards, Asif On Jan 14, 9:20 am, ashutosh deshmukh <ashutosh.deshmukh2...@gmail.com> wrote: > When you download using repo sync, you will not get "kernel". Actually, > Android uses Linux kerenel for its Process management, low level I/O > management. If you obtain the source code for a specific Board for e.g TI's > OMaP3430 Board, than TI will provide kerenel code which will run on their > boards. > > But if you have alrady downloaded the souce code, than you can still build > the Android OS. > You can try with Build command "make sdk", which will build the necessary > Android image and sdk tools such as emulator,adb of android. > > There are differnt google groups such as android-platform, android-porting, > android-kernel on which you can post your issues, and discuss with Android > community. > > Hope this helps, > > On 13 January 2011 03:53, muasif80 <muasi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I would like to know the difference if any between Android Kernel > > compiling and Android OS compiling. > > > Secondly if I want to compile Android OS with some default general > > configurations then where I can get help for it. I have gone through > > the source.android.com getting source and I have actually downloaded > > the source using > > > repo sync command > > > After this I have no clue what to do. The info on source.android.com > > is not enough for a beginner to understand the process completely. > > > I have actually got errors while compiling and those errors are not > > understandable for me. > > > So I need help to successfully compile the Android OS and if Android > > Kernel is something different from Android OS then I want to know > > about this difference as well. > > > Can anyone help me please? I will be very thankful to any help. > > > Regards, > > Asif > > > -- > > unsubscribe: > > android-kernel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-kernel%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > website:http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel > > -- > Thanks, > Ashutosh Deshmukh -- unsubscribe: android-kernel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel
