How to build Android adb on ARM

2011-09-02 Leave a comment

Thanks to Google I’ve just found searching in many Forum threads the way to build adb on ARM arch.
Just download sources with git (apt-get install git-core on debian-like system):

$ git clone git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/system/core.git system/core
$ git clone git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/build.git build
$ git clone git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/external/zlib.git external/zlib
$ git clone git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/bionic.git bionic

Now edit build/core/main.mk and comment out the parts labelled

# Check for the correct version of java

and

# Check for the correct version of javac

Since adb doesn’t need Java, these checks are unnecessary.
Also edit build/target/product/sdk.mk and comment out the “include” lines after

# include available languages for TTS in the system image

This avoids having to download language files that aren’t needed for adb.

Save this Makefile as system/core/adb/Makefile : https://gist.github.com/958335
Then just run:

cd system/core/adb; make

Then you can copy and use your adb binary.
That’s all! If you have any problems search your distro’s packages repository to install needed packages!
:-)
URL:
http://lackingrhoticity.blogspot.com/2010/02/how-to-build-adb-android-debugger.html
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5904765/build-android-adb-for-arm-processor