[Vibrant Android Development] momashi:
As you all may know (or may not know or may not even care), Google's current implementation of ADB for Linux only works on 32Bit Linux systems (boooh!) which leaves the rest of us x64 users with the dilemma of either installing an extra redundant 32bit version of Ubuntu that will hord 15Gb of space so that we may type a few ADB commands in the bash prompt or install ADB on Windows for those of us that have it. Ever since I bought my phone and was forced to reboot my beloved free OS to type those few commands, I'd wave my fists in the air and curse Google for not having had enough sense to make a 64Bit implementation.

Fortunately, my fists will need tire themselves no more. Using a guide compiled by a Geeksphone.com forum user called Talpa, I was able to successfully compile and run ADB on a Linux 64Bit system in short order. Little things make me happy and having seen that this technique is not very wide spread on the forums, I've decided to spread the happiness myself...

CREDITS:

Big, big thanks to the users of the geeksphone forums for having pooled their time, skills and efforts together to figure out this hack and a another big thank you to talpa for having sifted through all the of posts and having made a coherent and unified guide out of it. The guide can be originally found at:

http://wiki.geeksphone.com/en/index.php?title=CompileADB64bitLinux

the discussion that lead to the guide is at:

http://forum.geeksphone.com/index.php?topic=850.0

ADB Linux 64Bit (yeeehhhaaaah!!!)

For the sake of added clarity, I've completely rewrote the geeksphone guide. go to your terminal

#> sudo su

#> mkdir /tmp/my-adb

#> cd /tmp/my-adb

if you don't already have it, install git-core:

#>apt-get install git-core

once that's done, type out the following commands:

#> 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

Before you run compile, you need to the following alterations to the compile scripts to make the output bianaries 64bit compatible. As time progress and this post ages in the ageless internet, some additional modifications may be necessary (or they may change the place of the offending code or may add new bits that need to be deleted or changed). You can go back to the GeeksPhone wiki link (up above) to see if the forum members there have updated it. Hopefully by then, Google would have compiled a 64Bit Linux version of ADB and all of this would be unnecessary. If for any reason you're unable or unwilling to modify the source code yourself, go to this link where I have posted the source code that I have modified:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/q42gektqr32nr31/adb-Linux64bit-source-code-jan-2011.zip

Editing the Source Code Yourself

first, edit the file /tmp/my-adb/build/target/product/sdk.mk and delete the last six lines:

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# include available languages for TTS in the system image

include external/svox/pico/lang/PicoLangDeDeInSystem.mk

include external/svox/pico/lang/PicoLangEnGBInSystem.mk

include external/svox/pico/lang/PicoLangEnUsInSystem.mk

include external/svox/pico/lang/PicoLangEsEsInSystem.mk

include external/svox/pico/lang/PicoLangFrFrInSystem.mk

include external/svox/pico/lang/PicoLangItItInSystem.mk

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then, edit the file /tmp/my-adb/build/core/main.mk at line 116 (again the position may change, just keep an eye out for the offending code) and erase the following lines:

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# Check for the correct version of java

java_version := $(shell java -version 2>&1 | head -n 1 | grep '[ "]1\.6[\. "$$]')

ifeq ($(strip $(java_version)),)

$(info ************************************************** **********)

$(info You are attempting to build with the incorrect version)

$(info of java.)

$(info $(space))

$(info Your version is: $(shell java -version 2>&1 | head -n 1).)

$(info The correct version is: 1.6.)

$(info $(space))

$(info Please follow the machine setup instructions at)

$(info $(space)$(space)$(space)$(space)http://source.android.com/source/download.html)

$(info ************************************************** **********)

$(error stop)

endif

# Check for the correct version of javac

javac_version := $(shell javac -version 2>&1 | head -n 1 | grep '[ "]1\.6[\. "$$]')

ifeq ($(strip $(javac_version)),)

$(info ************************************************** **********)

$(info You are attempting to build with the incorrect version)

$(info of javac.)

$(info $(space))

$(info Your version is: $(shell javac -version 2>&1 | head -n 1).)

$(info The correct version is: 1.6.)

$(info $(space))

$(info Please follow the machine setup instructions at)

$(info $(space)$(space)$(space)$(space)http://source.android.com/source/download.html)

$(info ************************************************** **********)

$(error stop)

endif

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Edit /tmp/my-adb/build/core/combo/HOST_linux-x86.mk and change every "-m32 string" to "m64"

Now that that's done, you should be able to get the compiling going with the following command:

#> make -f build/core/main.mk out/host/linux-x86/bin/adb

Once that's done, you go to /tmp/my-adb/out/host/linux-x86/bin/ and you get your adb and acp binaries and move them to wherever your OS keeps all the system binaries.

In ubuntu 10.04, that would be

/bin/adb

/bin/acp

That's it, adb should work from your 64 bit linux shell.

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