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Post #2. Rom - How to build AOKP 6.0 for the Galaxy Note Edge (TBLTEXX).

Post #2. Rom - How to build AOKP 6.0 for the Galaxy Note Edge (TBLTEXX).

Step by step instructions for building AOKP 6.0 for the international variant of the Samsung Galaxy Note Edge

This is adapted from my previous writeup on building AOKP 6.0 for the T-Mobile variant of the Samsung Galaxy S4:

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s4-tmobile/general/guide-step-step-instructions-building-t3402637

I have noticed that the build instructions on the AOKP website are a bit outdated. They date back to JellyBean. I would like to encourage other users to build more custom roms, and I thought that it would help if I show how to build one of the roms wich compiled successfully for me (Praise God!). It is my hope that these instructions are clear and easy to follow. Hey, if I can do it, anybody can do it!

<<<<< Step 1: Setup your system. >>>>>​

To be honest, this can be the most daunting part, because if you do not set this up properly, it just will not work. I use Ubuntu 14.04 on a HP Compaq 6715b laptop. I know, not a very ideal compiler, but it is what I've got. Here are the suggested packages, just open a terminal and paste this in:

$ sudo apt-get install bison build-essential bzip2 curl dpkg-dev flex g++-multilib git git-review gnupg gperf lib32ncurses5-dev lib32readline-gplv2-dev lib32z1-dev openjdk-7-jdk libbz2-1.0 libbz2-dev libc6-dev libghc-bzlib-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 libncurses5-dev libreadline6-dev libreadline6-dev:i386 libx11-dev:i386 libxml2-utils lzop maven pngcrush pngquant python-markdown schedtool squashfs-tools tofrodos x11proto-core-dev xsltproc zip zlib1g-dev zlib1g-dev:i386

This will take a while. Once it is done, do this:

$ mkdir ~/bin && curl http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > ~/bin/repo && chmod a+x ~/bin/repo

$ gedit ~/.bashrc

Now you should see gedit open up your .bashrc file, to which you should add this at the very end, and save it:

export PATH=~/bin:$PATH

Now you need to close your terminal and open a new one to get the PATH variables to stick. Actually, it wouldn't hurt to reboot your system after installing all of those programs we just installed. Your computer should now be primed and ready to go.

<<<<< Step 2: Download the source. >>>>>​

Here is a very short project for you that takes the computer a long time to complete. Open a terminal and start typing:

$ cd ~
$ mkdir aokp6
$ cd aokp6
$ repo init -u https://github.com/AOKP/platform_manifest.git -b mm
$ repo sync

You can now go outside, play with the kids, phone a friend, and then go to bed. When you awake the next morning, this might be done, depending on your internet connection!

<<<<< Step 3: Adding the device, kernel, and vendor trees. >>>>>​

In some cases, you can simply type the command

$ breakfast

and just choose your device, but at this time, the AOKP repository did not include a current device tree for the TBLTEXX phone, so we need to download one. Later, perhaps we can learn about adding them as dependencies or in your manifests, but for now, here are the links to download them, which will help you understand how this works, follow the link, and click the download button to download the zips. Yes some of these are from AOKP for other files you need. Be sure to grap the MM branch for this guide. There are now newer Nougat branches, which works the same as well, but this guide was written from MM.

https://github.com/alaskalinuxuser/device_samsung_tbltexx

https://github.com/alaskalinuxuser/kernel_samsung_tblte

https://github.com/alaskalinuxuser/device_samsung_tblte-common

https://github.com/alaskalinuxuser/device_samsung_qcom-common

https://github.com/AOKP/device_qcom_common

https://github.com/alaskalinuxuser/tblte_vendor_samsung

Once you have downloaded them, unzip each one and rename them:

aokp_device_samsung_tbltexx --> "tbltexx" (Place in aokp/device/samsung/ )

aokp_device_samsung_tblte-common --> "tblte-common" (Place in aokp/device/samsung/ )

aokp_device_samsung_qcom-common --> "qcom-common" (Place in aokp/device/samsung/ )

device_qcom_common --> "common" (Place in aokp/device/qcom/ )

tblte_vendor_samsung --> "samsung" (Place in aokp/device/samsung/ )

kernel_samsung_tblte --> "tblte" (Place in aokp/kernel/samsung/ )

You may have to make the folders that they go into.

Now you should probably take a break before going on to the next step!

<<<<< Step 4: Editing the device, kernel, and vendor trees. >>>>>​

Now, go to the device/samsung/tblte-common folder and make any edits you want. It should work just the way that it is currently. This is where you could add apps, change features of your phone, etc. See the following posts for guides on doing that.

Note: Because repositories are constantly updated, I can only garuntee that this will work based on the files as they were the day of this writing. However, with all of this in place, if you follow this guide, it should work realatively the same as it did for me.

Now that all of the hard work is done, it is time to actually build something!

<<<<< Step 5: Start your build! >>>>>​

Phew! You have invested a lot of hours into this project, now it is time to actually put those files and time to use! Open up a terminal in your aokp6 folder and start typing:

$ . build/envsetup.sh

Which will output something like this:

including vendor/aokp/vendorsetup.sh
including sdk/bash_completion/adb.bash
including vendor/aokp/bash_completion/git.bash
including vendor/aokp/bash_completion/repo.bash

Now type:

$ brunch tbltexx

Which will start the long build process, it will output this:

including vendor/aokp/vendorsetup.sh
Got local manifest
Got local manifest
Checked dependency tree over :
NO_DEPS: device/*/tbltexx

============================================
PLATFORM_VERSION_CODENAME = REL
PLATFORM_VERSION = 6.0.1
AOKP_VERSION = aokp_tbltexx_mm_unofficial_2016-10-27_1015
TARGET_PRODUCT = aokp_tbltexx
TARGET_BUILD_VARIANT = userdebug
TARGET_BUILD_TYPE = release
TARGET_BUILD_APPS =
TARGET_ARCH = arm
TARGET_ARCH_VARIANT = armv7-a-neon
TARGET_CPU_VARIANT = krait
TARGET_2ND_ARCH =
TARGET_2ND_ARCH_VARIANT =
TARGET_2ND_CPU_VARIANT =
HOST_ARCH = x86_64
HOST_OS = linux
HOST_OS_EXTRA = Linux-3.16.0-73-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-14.04-trusty
HOST_BUILD_TYPE = release
BUILD_ID = MOB30J
OUT_DIR = /home/alaskalinuxuser/Documents/projects/phones/compile/aokp6/out
============================================

And this:

.....edited for space.....

Import includes file: /home/alaskalinuxuser/Documents/projects/phones/compile/aokp6/out/host/linux-x86/obj/EXECUTABLES/acp_intermediates/import_includes
host C: libhost <= build/libs/host/CopyFile.c
build/libs/host/CopyFile.c:86:43: warning: unused parameter 'pSrcStat' [-Wunused-parameter]
static bool isSameFile(const struct stat* pSrcStat, const struct stat* pDstStat)
^
build/libs/host/CopyFile.c:86:72: warning: unused parameter 'pDstStat' [-Wunused-parameter]
static bool isSameFile(const struct stat* pSrcStat, const struct stat* pDstStat)
^
build/libs/host/CopyFile.c:104:42: warning: unused parameter 'src' [-Wunused-parameter]
static void printNotNewerMsg(const char* src, const char* dst, unsigned int options)
^
build/libs/host/CopyFile.c:531:69: warning: unused parameter 'isCmdLine' [-Wunused-parameter]
static int copyFileRecursive(const char* src, const char* dst, bool isCmdLine, unsigned int options)

.....edited for space..... Stuff like this will scroll by .....

Copy: /home/alaskalinuxuser/Documents/projects/phones/compile/aokp6/out/target/product/tbltexx/obj/STATIC_LIBRARIES/libext4_intermediates/libipt_LOG.c
Copy: /home/alaskalinuxuser/Documents/projects/phones/compile/aokp6/out/target/product/tbltexx/obj/STATIC_LIBRARIES/libext4_intermediates/libipt_MASQUERADE.c
Copy: /home/alaskalinuxuser/Documents/projects/phones/compile/aokp6/out/target/product/tbltexx/obj/STATIC_LIBRARIES/libext4_intermediates/libipt_MIRROR.c
Copy: /home/alaskalinuxuser/Documents/projects/phones/compile/aokp6/out/target/product/tbltexx/obj/STATIC_LIBRARIES/libext4_intermediates/libipt_NETMAP.c
target StaticLib: libip4tc (/home/alaskalinuxuser/Documents/projects/phones/compile/aokp6/out/target/product/tbltexx/obj/STATIC_LIBRARIES/libip4tc_intermediates/libip4tc.a)
target thumb C++: keystore <= system/security/keystore/keystore.cpp
target thumb C++: keystore <= system/security/keystore/keyblob_utils.cpp
target thumb C++: keystore <= system/security/keystore/operation.cpp

.....edited for space.....

Notice that there were some "warning" flags in there. Warnings are not all bad, but they can be. In this case it works out okay. Hopefully, after many hours, you should see this:

______ _____ __ __ _____
/\ _ \/\ __`\/\ \/\ \ /\ _ `\
\ \ \L\ \ \ \/\ \ \ \/'/'\ \ \L\ \
\ \ __ \ \ \ \ \ \ , < \ \ ,__/
\ \ \/\ \ \ \_\ \ \ \\`\ \ \ \/
\ \_\ \_\ \_____\ \_\ \_\\ \_\
\/_/\/_/\/_____/\/_/\/_/ \/_/

===========-Package complete-===========
zip: /home/alaskalinuxuser/Documents/projects/phones/compile/aokp6/out/target/product/tbltexx/aokp_tbltexx_mm_unofficial_2016-10-27_0149.zip
md5: 46bc18249c61988e75aba813464692a3
size: 324M
========================================

Success! Praise God! Now you can put this on your phone and test it out! Hopefully everything will be working! For future use, now you can start making changes or edits, from backgrounds to kernels! Have fun and make lots of backups. Remember, sometimes it is really hard to undo a change that you make.

Hopefully we learned how to set up our system, get the source, add devices and kernels that are not in the source, and run the compiler. Like I said, this works on my machine, as of this writing. You may notice, that if you make this build, it will not be identical to the one that I have posted on XDA. That is because I have made a few edits, additions, and/or subtractions here and there. That is the great thing about Android and open source! It is now up to you to make it better, to make it unique, or to make it you. Good luck with those builds, and be sure to share and help the next guy or gal with their projects too!