android building and Slackware

{davros} · 07-20-2011, 03:32 PM

has it been done? what packages are needed? i have 13.37 installed and want to use Slackware and not winbuntu...

Cultist · 07-20-2011, 03:54 PM

What are you asking exactly?

Android as in the mobile OS? or an android as in humanoid machine?

Your question is pretty unclear either way

{davros} · 07-20-2011, 03:58 PM

oops ya i suppose so, ya im trying to build android AOSP os with out having to use ubuntu anymore. i want to use slack

Cultist · 07-20-2011, 04:07 PM

Well, this page says that it requires Python 2.x, JDK 5 or 6, and Git 1.5.4.

Git and Python 2 (I think) are both included in the default Slackware install, while JDK will have to be downloaded from here.

That page also shows this line

Code:

$ sudo apt-get install git-core gnupg flex bison gperf build-essential \
  zip curl zlib1g-dev libc6-dev lib32ncurses5-dev ia32-libs \
  x11proto-core-dev libx11-dev lib32readline5-dev lib32z-dev \
  libgl1-mesa-dev g++-multilib mingw32 tofrodos

. I'm not sure which of those are part of the default Slackware and which aren't, so you might have to do a little manual dependency testing for that.

If you're a new Slackware user, you can probably find any of those packages you need at slackbuilds.org.

Also, judging from the multilib packages the Ubuntu instructions tell you to download, this might be a 32-bit only thing. If so, you'll want to download alienbob's multilib package set, if you run the 64 bit version of slackware. It isn't multilib-enabled by default.

{davros} · 07-20-2011, 04:16 PM

Cool ya I new all the "required" packages but didn't know which were default in slack. I am a newish slack user I had an old slack server in the late 90's that a friend wrote the kernel for and what not. Ive primarily been using ubuntu for android os building with the fact all guides and documentation seems to be for ubuntu ... I've recently decided that I want a "real" distro. Put it on my second 32bit "test" run laptop. I have fallen in love with it and am learning more every day!

manwichmakesameal · 07-20-2011, 08:27 PM

I had the Android SDK installed and the only things that I had (not really) to install was eclipse.

GasPipe · 07-21-2011, 01:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cultist

Git and Python 2 (I think) are both included in the default Slackware install, while JDK will have to be downloaded from here.

You can also find JDK from extra. If you have extra enabled from /etc/slackpkg/slackpkg.conf, you can just type 'slackpkg install jdk' to install it.