Linux
The Android build is routinely tested on recent versions of Ubuntu (6.06 and later), but reports of successes or failures on other distributions are welcome.
Ubuntu Linux (32-bit x86)
To set up your Linux development environment, make sure you have the following:
Required Packages:
Git 1.5.4 or newer and the GNU Privacy Guard.
JDK 5.0, update 12 or higher.Java 6 is not supported, because of incompatibilities with @Override.
flex, bison, gperf, libsdl-dev, libesd0-dev, libwxgtk2.6-dev (optional), build-essential, zip, curl.
$ sudo apt-get install
git-core gnupg
sun-java5-jdk
flex bison gperf libsdl-dev libesd0-dev libwxgtk2.6-dev build-essential zip curl libncurses5-dev zlib1g-dev
You might also want Valgrind, a tool that will help you find memory leaks, stack corruption, array bounds overflows, etc.
$ sudo apt-get install valgrind
Intrepid ( 8.10) users may need a newer version of libreadline:
$ sudo apt-get install lib32readline5-dev
Ubuntu Linux (64-bit x86)
This has not been as well tested. Please send success or failure reports to
android-porting@googlegroups.com .
The Android build requires a 32-bit build environment as well as some other tools:
Required Packages:
Git, JDK, flex, and the other packages as listed above in the i386 instructions:JDK 5.0, update 12 or higher.Java 6 is not supported, because of incompatibilities with @Override.Pieces from the 32-bit cross-building environmentX11 development
$ sudo apt-get install git-core gnupg flex bison gperf build-essential zip curl sun-java5-jdk
zlib1g-dev gcc-multilib g++-multilib libc6-dev-i386 lib32ncurses5-dev ia32-libs x11proto-core-dev libx11-dev lib32readline5-dev lib32z-dev
Set the system to use the right version of java by default:$ sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-1.5.0-sun
X11: Ubuntu doesn't have packages for the X11 libraries, but that can be worked around with the following command:$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib32/libX11.so.6 /usr/lib32/libX11.so
