Android Recovery Minimal Manifest

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Minimal repo manifest for compiling android recovery

Requirements

• Ubuntu 16.04 [Recommended]
• Common packages for both, 32-bit and 64-bit systems

bc bison build-essential curl flex git gnupg gperf libesd0-dev liblz4-tool libncurses5-dev libsdl1.2-dev libwxgtk3.0-dev libxml2 libxml2-utils lzop maven openjdk-7-jdk pngcrush schedtool squashfs-tools xsltproc zip zlib1g-dev

• Additional packages for 64-bit systems

g++-multilib gcc-multilib lib32ncurses5-dev lib32readline6-dev lib32z1-dev

• Repo tool

$ curl https://storage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > ~/bin/repo
$ chmod a+x ~/bin/repo
$ export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH

Getting Started

• Initializing repository

  repo init --depth=1 -u https://github.com/vedant-y/android-recovery.git -b cm-13.0

• Downloading source code

  repo sync

Compiling

• Compiling single module, recovery

$ source build/envsetup.sh
$ breakfast surnia
$ make recovery

Additional

• Installing OpenJDK 7 on Ubuntu 16.04

$ add-apt-repository ppa:openjdk-r/ppa  
$ apt-get update   
$ apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk

• Adding ~/bin to default $PATH

$ nano ~/.profile

# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
    PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi

• Local manifests

# Create a directory inside .repo
$ mkdir -p .repo/local_manifests

# Create any xml file, default roomservice.xml
$ nano .repo/local_manifests/roomservice.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<manifest>
  <remove-project name="CyanogenMod/android_kernel_motorola_msm8916" />
</manifest>

Reference

• LineageOS Wiki