Experimenter: Build PA (Paranoid Android) for Nexus 5 (hammerhead) in MacOSX Mavericks

Thanks for this post in XDA [GUIDE] Setting up a build environment on OSX 10.9 Mavericks so that I can build PA on my old Macbook Pro without many troubles.

Preparation

Install Xcode/JDK/Homebrew as the XDA post mentioned. However, the installation of Xcode is not really necessary. It saves you some work, though. The CommandLineTools is enough to finish the build if you manually set the variable mac_sdk_version in build/code/combo/HOST_darwin-x86.mk instead of obtaining it from xcodebuild.

Download prebuilt kernel/proprietary files for hammerhead

Kernel

Sync or download from Google site

git clone https://android.googlesource.com/device/lge/hammerhead-kernel

This is a long process. If you don't want to waste time, just download the vmlinux.bz2 and zImage-dtb.

device/lge/device.mk

Set TARGET_PREBUILT_KERNEL to your download location.

Proprietary files

Just download and extract.

https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/drivers#hammerheadktu84q

build/core/combo/HOST_darwin-x86.mk

The first change is to add 10.9 to the variable mac_sdk_verions_supported.

The second change is to instruct build system to use the correct toolchain (missing stdarg.h in 10.8+). This is different from what was recommended in the XDA post.

The third change is to use gstat instead of stat.

# $(1): The file to check
define get-file-size
GSTAT=$(which gstat) ; \
if [ ! -z "$GSTAT" ]; then \
gstat -c "%s" $(1) ; \
else \
stat -f "%z" $(1) ; \
fi
endef