How to setup build environment

23rd of December 2017

What are build tools?

Build tools are required files to compile the sources provided by Google. This includes various things like java, gcc, gnupg, etc.

Min system requirement to make roms (android 7.x & android 8.x)

  1. CPU - 8 cores (x64 bit)
  2. RAM - 12 GB
  3. Storage - 200 GB
  4. Internet - high speed internet as sources are above 25 GB
  5. OS - Linux or Mac
If you dont have a pc which meets min. system requirment then you can buy servers OR get one from google as trail.

Setting up Linux system

1. Installing Java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk
2. Required packages
sudo apt-get install git-core gnupg flex bison gperf build-essential zip curl zlib1g-dev gcc-multilib g++-multilib libc6-dev-i386 lib32ncurses5-dev x11proto-core-dev libx11-dev lib32z-dev ccache libgl1-mesa-dev libxml2-utils xsltproc unzip bc imagemagick

Setting up Git

1. Set a Git username & email
git config --global user.name "YOUR USERNAME"
git config --global user.email "youremailid@example.com"
2. Setting up SSH for git ( optional )

It helps to avoid typing username and password again and again whenever you push something Click here