Ok so first off,
Im brand new to android dev. This is my first attempt at any form of kernel anything. I have a limited knowledge of java and python, but no C.
I have a galaxy tab 4 sm-t330nu running 4.4.2. its running a qualcomm snapdragon 400 msm8226 cpu. im simply trying to do a test build with a vanilla kernel at this point. (also my build environment is the newest kali 1.1 and im loosely following the tutorial at https://github.com/offensive-security/kali-nethunter/wiki/Porting-Nethunter)
so i have all of the required dependencies (i hope), and ive downloaded my source from samsung opensource. unzipped and went through the available defconfigs. after finding "msm8226-sec_milletwifiue_defconfig" i decided it was the most likely candidate for my tablet. (when doing a custom recovery i remember it being "philz touch milletwifiue something)
Ive done my exports (arch= subarch= cross_compile=) and all seems well. When i run a build following exactly as the tutorial says (using the defconfig in their example as a test) i receive an error stating "must define variant_defconfig". So i instead do "make variant_defconfig=msm8974_sec_defconfig" and it builds great.
Now the issue:
When i change "msm8974_sec_defconfig" to my actual msm8226 i receive an error on every build that i cannot seem to workaround. (cut down for size)
CC arch/arm/kernel/armksyms.o
CC arch/arm/kernel/module.o
AS arch/arm/kernel/sleep.o
CC arch/arm/kernel/suspend.o
CC arch/arm/kernel/io.o
arch/arm/kernel/io.c: In function '_memcpy_fromio':
arch/arm/kernel/io.c:14:3: error: implicit declaration of function 'nop' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
make[1]: *** [arch/arm/kernel/io.o] Error 1
make: *** [arch/arm/kernel] Error 2
My exact bash line reads
make VARIANT_DEFCONFIG=msm8226-sec_milletwifiue_defconfig
Any assistance on clearing this up would be great
edit
although im not familiar with c, it seems to me that '_memcpy_fromio' is where the error lies. and my google searches tell me that the error is that a function is used without being declared. however i dont know if memcpy is a function? or is the function within class memcpy (dont know if c has classes just closest equivalent that i know of) how do i debug this code and declare what needs to be declared (more importantly, if this is a stock kernel thats used by thousands of devices, how can it possibly have an undeclared function?
/edit
found the answer! needed
#import linux/modules.h
#import linux/kernel.h
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Currently trying to build android-5.1.0_r5. I've checked out the sources and made no modifications. However, when compiling I get the following error.
Checking API: checkpublicapi-current
out/target/common/obj/PACKAGING/public_api.txt:20: error 5: Added public field android.Manifest.permission.BACKUP
out/target/common/obj/PACKAGING/public_api.txt:82: error 5: Added public field android.Manifest.permission.INVOKE_CARRIER_SETUP
out/target/common/obj/PACKAGING/public_api.txt:106: error 5: Added public field android.Manifest.permission.READ_PRIVILEGED_PHONE_STATE
out/target/common/obj/PACKAGING/public_api.txt:116: error 5: Added public field android.Manifest.permission.RECEIVE_EMERGENCY_BROADCAST
******************************
You have tried to change the API from what has been previously approved.
To make these errors go away, you have two choices:
1) You can add "#hide" javadoc comments to the methods, etc. listed in the
errors above.
2) You can update current.txt by executing the following command:
make update-api
To submit the revised current.txt to the main Android repository,
you will need approval.
******************************
And diffing the public api txt files does indeed show a difference.
diff frameworks/base/api/current.txt out/target/common/obj/PACKAGING/public_api.txt
19a20
> field public static final java.lang.String BACKUP = "android.permission.BACKUP";
80a82
> field public static final java.lang.String INVOKE_CARRIER_SETUP = "android.permission.INVOKE_CARRIER_SETUP";
103a106
> field public static final java.lang.String READ_PRIVILEGED_PHONE_STATE = "android.permission.READ_PRIVILEGED_PHONE_STATE";
112a116
> field public static final java.lang.String RECEIVE_EMERGENCY_BROADCAST = "android.permission.RECEIVE_EMERGENCY_BROADCAST";
However, I cant figure out where those additional Public Fields are coming from. Any ideas?
Don't do 'make update-api' if you didn't touch anything. There additional apis came form frameworks/base/res/AndroidManifest.xml badly parsed by aapt that uses buggy system/core/libcore/String8.cpp##removeAll() they use memcpy but should be memmove for overlapping strings in memory.
This is issue on latest Debian (sid) or Ubuntu (16 maybe 15) build machines.
It's a google bug in libcore/String8.cpp. Fix is here:
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/core/+/dd060f01f68ee0e633e9cae24c4e565cda2032bd
This man found it (Michael Scott) and maybe some other people too. Here is his investigation: https://plus.google.com/+hashcode0f/posts/URHo3hBmfHY
Living on the Edge (of Ubuntu) ... can be painful!
I've been running Ubuntu 15.04 for a while now. It's been great
having a very current kernel alongside the latest improvements from
Ubuntu and Debian. (My past post on using zRAM ramdisk is one
example).
However, having the newest greatest toys also has it's downsides. I
recently spent 4 days troubleshooting a build break in Android which
started some time after March 25th. I'm guessing I updated packages
or inadvertently changed my glibc version.
The outcome was a build error during the checkapi stage of Android
build:
Install: /out/mydroid-ara/host/linux-x86/bin/apicheck Checking API:
checkpublicapi-last Checking API: checkpublicapi-current
/out/mydroid-ara/target/common/obj/PACKAGING/public_api.txt:20: error
5: Added public field android.Manifest.permission.BACKUP
/out/mydroid-ara/target/common/obj/PACKAGING/public_api.txt:82: error
5: Added public field android.Manifest.permission.INVOKE_CARRIER_SETUP
/out/mydroid-ara/target/common/obj/PACKAGING/public_api.txt:106: error
5: Added public field
android.Manifest.permission.READ_PRIVILEGED_PHONE_STATE
/out/mydroid-ara/target/common/obj/PACKAGING/public_api.txt:116: error
5: Added public field
android.Manifest.permission.RECEIVE_EMERGENCY_BROADCAST
**************************** You have tried to change the API from what has been previously approved.
To make these errors go away, you have two choices: 1) You can add
"#hide" javadoc comments to the methods, etc. listed in the
errors above.
2) You can update current.txt by executing the following command:
make update-api
To submit the revised current.txt to the main Android repository,
you will need approval.
This occurred on both of my Ubuntu 15.04 boxes and was present when
when build AOSP android-5.0.2_r1 and android-5.1.0_r1.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with this portion of the Android
build, the Android framework exports all of the public portions of the
API and makes sure that the current build matches up with what's
located under frameworks/base/api/current.txt. It does this by
parsing frameworks/base/res/AndroidManifest.xml and any of the current
device's overlay .xml files and processes items marked with various
flags in the comments above them:#SystemApi, #hide, etc. This
parsing and processing portion of the checkapi stage is done by a
binary "aapt" (Android Asset Packagng Tool). It's source is located
under frameworks/base/tools/aapt.
I started by checking for upstream fixes to the platform/build or
platform/frameworks/base projects. After striking out, I began
debugging the android build via the use of: "make checkapi
showcommands" and then manually running the commands with "strace" to
see how each binary was involved and what output it generated.
After the first few hours of debugging, it became apparent that
out/target/common/obj/APPS/frameworks-res_intermediates/src/android/Manifest.java
file had comments which were being corrupted when aapt was generating
it. I was able to make some manual changes to the AndroidManifest.xml
file and get the build to pass (removing extra portions of the
comments).
Digging deeper via strace and then looking at various static link
sources, I found that during the AndroidManifest.xml comments
processing the #SystemApi token was being filtered out via a
String8.removeAll("#SystemApi") function call. Experimentally, I
removed this part of the processing. Lo and Behold! The build
worked. Taking a closer look at the removeAll function, I was able to
pin point a memcpy function as the part of the function which was
causing corruption.
I then researched memcpy a bit and noted that you are not supposed to
use memcpy on overlapping memory addresses, instead memmove was
preferred, because it makes a copy of the source prior to any changes
being made to the destination. After changing the use of memcpy to
memmove the build was fixed and all was well with the world!
As a good player in the open source world, I immediately thought I
should upstream this incredible feat of debugging to the master branch
of system/core. BUT, alas! The fix has been in the master branch
since November 11th 2014! And hasn't been brought into any of the
current development tags! grumble
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/core/+/dd060f01f68ee0e633e9cae24c4e565cda2032bd
I've since contacted the Google team about this change and let them
know of my experience in hopes that we may yet see this patch in
future release tags of Android.
Conclusion: apparently glibc is undergoeing some changes and some of
those have now filtered onto my Ubuntu boxes. Where previously the
memcpy usage was incorrect but still usable, it now causes the build
break I was seeing.
If you see this kind of error in your Android builds, and you're on a
newish version of Ubuntu or Debian distrobution, you may want to try
this simple patch and see if it helps.
Hash
Big up himself!
I do see the entries in my r8 code so you are probably safe running make update-api, and when that finishes then run your make command as normal.
Two days ago i read some guides about how to self compile cyanogenmod and i wanted to try on my phone (Galaxy 3 i5800). The phone's CPU architecture is ARMV6 so i downloaded from androidarmv6.github.io the CyanogenMod 10.2 source code and from https://github.com/sdadier/cm10.1_device_samsung_apollo the device folder. At first compilation went pretty good except some "Selected Thumb mode not supported..." errors which i fixed by adding "-marm" CFLAG to involved Android.mk . However now i'm stuck on libhwardware_legacy compilation because i keep getting the error:
target thumb C: libhardware_legacy <= hardware/libhardware_legacy/wifi/wifi.c
hardware/libhardware_legacy/wifi/wifi.c: In function 'update_ctrl_interface':
hardware/libhardware_legacy/wifi/wifi.c:473:5: warning: suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value [-Wparentheses]
hardware/libhardware_legacy/wifi/wifi.c: In function 'wifi_start_supplicant':
hardware/libhardware_legacy/wifi/wifi.c:835:4: error: expected identifier before 'unsigned'
hardware/libhardware_legacy/wifi/wifi.c:895:20: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
hardware/libhardware_legacy/wifi/wifi.c:912:26: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
I searched on Google what that meant and i found lots of thread about this here on StackOverflow and on some Linux forums but none of them referred to Android, Cyanogen or libhardware_legacy. Is it a problem with my system? There is an error in the code (code here)?
Please give me some suggestion
OK! To fix the issue i removed "const prop_info *pi" and added this instead:
struct prop_info{
unsigned serial;
};
struct prop_info *pi;
but i think that if the system compiles it's not going to boot. However i will try to dump the libhardware_legacy from who compile CM10.1 successfully since the code is the same.
UPDATE: I probably found the main issue. The same error came up again and now there are 7 of them and the problem is that they are in the init so i can't workaround. However i noticed that wifi.c and property_service.c have an header in common sys/_system_properties.h probably the main error is there somewhere. Someone has a solution for this?
I am trying to compile some source code but when i run the command
make -f android-9-armv7.mk
I get the following error
android-9-armv7.mk:1: * missing separator. Stop.
This is the contents of the file above:
And I have set the IMAGINE_PATH variable as well, cant seem to figure it out.
link ../imagine/make/shortcut/common-builds/android-9-armv7.mk
Compiling instructions
http://code.google.com/p/emu-ex-plus-alpha/wiki/Compiling
Imagine is locaed at C:/Imagine
I don't know where you've taken the sources, but all the android-9-armv7.mk files from different projects on that git has following content:
../imagine/make/shortcut/common-builds/android-9-armv7.mk
...there is no link keyword, which probably is why you get this error.
Also, please be informed that you're building this on Windows machine while documentation clearly states that it's supported only on Linux and Mac OS X.
The conversion of my Android application to the iPhone ObjectX environment as described in the XMLVM user manual works almost fine on my MAC, but I end up with 3 errors in the resulting XCode:
The first two errors simply relate to missing files, namely:
org_w3c_dom_Node.h
android_app_DatePickerDialog_OnDateSetListener.h
These are clearly not files from the converted Android application. Where can I get these from?
The third is an error that keeps coming up in the file
java_lang_String.h
The error message is:
typedef NSMutableString java_lang_String: redefinition as different kind of symbol
This error has been reported before in the XMLVM user group but as far as I know has never been answered sufficiently.
About the first error:
this is part of the Android API that has not yet been implemented.
This is the reason why it can't find the files.
Now, the second problem is not actually an error, but a warning and shouldn't stop you form compiling.
If it does, it means that in your project you have set the option to make errors from these types of warnings.
You can safely turn this off and completely ignore this warning.
build/core/base_rules.mk:166: *** system/core/allwinner_a10_core/adb:
MODULE.HOST.EXECUTABLES.adb already defined by system/core/adb. Stop.
I can understand that there is a conflict between the ICS source code's adb and the adb provided by the actual board is leading to the conflict.
I want to know where and what file i have to change to resolve this conflict,i.e, tell the compiler which adb to use. (more generically which library to use, as i know this is a generic problem)
I wish the compilation process was explained better by google's reference documents!