Build Your Phone Android Distro with CyanogenMod Compiler 0.4 GUI (Cmc-pygtk) for Ubuntu

Lithid, a member of XDA Developers Forum, has recently released the 4th version of a GUI tool (Cmc-pygtk) to build Android for a given smartphone as long as it is supported by CM. The CyanogenMod Compiler is supported by Ubuntu 10.04 32/64-bit and greater, and you can either download a deb file or build it yourself by following the instructions below:

1. Install dependencies:
   
   sudo apt-get install build-essential devscripts ubuntu-dev-tools debhelper \ dh-make diff patch cdbs quilt gnupg fakeroot lintian pbuilder piuparts \ flex bison gperf libsdl1.2-dev libesd0-dev libwxgtk2.6-dev squashfs-tools \ libncurses5-dev  zlib1g-dev openjdk-6-jdk pngcrush schedtool

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   sudo apt-get install build-essential devscripts ubuntu-dev-tools debhelper \ dh-make diff patch cdbs quilt gnupg fakeroot lintian pbuilder piuparts \ flex bison gperf libsdl1.2-dev libesd0-dev libwxgtk2.6-dev squashfs-tools \ libncurses5-dev  zlib1g-dev openjdk-6-jdk pngcrush schedtool

2. Clone the source tree:
   
   git clone git://github.com/lithid/Cmc-pygtk.git

   1	git clone git://github.com/lithid/Cmc-pygtk.git

3. Generate a gpg key:
   
   keygpg --gen-key

   1	keygpg --gen-key

4. Delete the changelog or dpkg will use lithid key instead.:
   
   cd Cmc-pygtk rm os-versions/common/changelog

   1 2	cd Cmc-pygtk rm os-versions/common/changelog

5. Edit the EMAIL field in the Makefile and replace it with the one used to generated the gpg key.
6. Build it for your version of Ubuntu. For Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit:
   
   make cmc-12.04-32

   1	make cmc-12.04-32

7. And install it:
   
   cd out sudo dpkg -i cmc-12.04-32-v0.4.deb

   1 2	cd out sudo dpkg -i cmc-12.04-32-v0.4.deb

Before using CyanogenMod Compiler (CMC) is installed, you need to install google repo tool:

Now that everything is setup, you can run CyanogenMod Compiler:

cmc

A disclaimer message telling that you may render your device unusable pops up, click on OK to enter the UI.

In the top menu, go to File->Setup to select your device, branch (ics or gingerbread) and other settings. Then click on Sync to download the code and once it is completed, click on Compile to build Android.

If you run into problems, you can read and ask on the XDA developer “[CMC-GUI] [PPA] Cyanogenmod Compiler” forum thread.

Source: OMGUBUNTU

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