This page includes instructions to help you set up an Android build system.

Visit the IRC channel #htc-linux on Freenode or visit the Kaiser or Polaris development threads on XDA-Developers or visit the Vogue android page hosted by dzo. Submit bugs in a bugtracker.

This guide is based off the one at the XDA Developers Wiki.

If you are running a Debian/Ubuntu based distribution, you can simply run the following command in a Terminal to download and install all the necessary prerequisites:

sudo aptitude install git-core git jfsutils xfsprogs quota isdnutils-base nfs-common oprofile

If you are running another distribution, you'll need to find out the equivalent packages and download/install them.

1. Create android-kernel directory in your home

   mkdir ~/android-kernel
   cd ~/android-kernel

2. Obtain the ARM toolchain

   wget http://www.codesourcery.com/downloads/public/gnu_toolchain/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/arm-2008q3-72-arm-none-linux-gnueabi-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.bz2 -O arm-2008q3-72-arm-none-linux-gnueabi-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.bz2
   tar xjf arm-2008q3-72-arm-none-linux-gnueabi-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.bz2
   export PATH=~/android-kernel/arm-2008q3/bin:$PATH

3. Obtain the kernel source from the git repository (this takes a while)

   git clone git://git.linuxtogo.org/home/groups/mobile-linux/kernel.git

4. Switch to the htc-vogue branch

   cd kernel
   git checkout -b htc-vogue origin/htc-vogue

   1. In the future, to update your local copy after git commits, simply cd to the kernel directory and run “git pull”
5. Prepare .config file by choosing the output targets

   make vogue_defconfig ARCH=arm; make menuconfig

6. Compile the kernel

   make zImage ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-linux-gnueabi-