I want to start building my own rom where do i start?

[cammykool]

so i cant run it in a virtual enviorment?

 

[LeslieAnn]

Yes you can. I did my older builds from my file server using Virtualbox with Ubuntu.

 

[cammykool]

i have VMware installed so do i just mount my phone to the program and type away


this will be fun

 

[cammykool]

alright i gave it 40 gigs and a gig of ram. enough?

 

[BobZhome]

I have 60GB and 1.6GB of ram for my VMware set up...it take 3 1/2 hours to compile CM7 and 6 hours for CM9

 

[rukin5197]

I got ~100gb and ~1.5 gb RAM (disk partition(dual booting)). Haven't necessarily tested build time because I usually let it run while I'm asleep. I can't believe you devs watch the whole thing. Lol soooo much code..

 

[cammykool]

when instyalling the JDk via get-install i seee this
\

root@ubuntu:~# apt-get install sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-jre
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package sun-java6-jdk is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package sun-java6-jdk has no installation candidate

 

[pbailey212]

Make sure you have it set for dual core processing, I don't think the free vmware lets you use more than dual, but by defaultits set for single core

Sent from my LG-VM670 using Tapatalk

 

[cammykool]

i have a amd althilon x2 its duyal ore

 

[cammykool]

i got some error about locked memory in vmware

 

[cammykool]

got it fixed but jdk still wont go

 

[rukin5197]

As long as you installed the right repo, go into synaptic package manager and do a search for it and install it there.

 

[cammykool]

repo?
all i did was give myself root acess ebter "apt-cache search jdk" and then "apt-get install sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-jre" thats what gives me the rror

 

[rukin5197]

I think you may need to find a ppa. That's how I always do it. Try the one in Jerry's post in the Building your own ROM thread.

 

[cammykool]

fixed with

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-jdk7-installer

 

[cammykool]

i had tov install the jdk 7 so all jerrys instrusctions are invalid... and im stucks

 

[cammykool]

jerry you can help me here... all your lines that have to do with jdk 6 dont work no more because of oracle closing the repository for openjdk and now i get this

root@ubuntu:~# sudo apt-get install git-core gnupg flex bison gperf libsdl1.2-dev libesd0-dev libwxgtk2.6-dev squashfs-tools build-essential zip curl libncurses5-dev zlib1g-dev sun-java6-jdk pngcrush schedtool
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
gnupg is already the newest version.
zip is already the newest version.
Package sun-java6-jdk is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package sun-java6-jdk has no installation candidate

what do i do now

 

[JerryScript]

I don't know if java7 will work, you need to use Sun's java6 afaik.

Google is your friend here. Don't make me pull out lmgtfy, if you want to dev, you gotta do some research!

 

[cammykool]

google is my friend... java isnt i even used java 6update31.bin installed via making a new floder cslled programs CDing into it installing the java6 repo installing java6 jdk and running your first code l9je in the thred nanda

 

[benslgdroid]

Here's something to watch for, allot of your posts have misspelling and extra letters. Spelling is deadly important in coding one misspell or typo or misplaced word or punctuation will kill your code or worse it will run to that error then..... brick.