How to build OEA 4.4 Images

[Gohel Manish]

These instructions are good for all OE-Alliance 4.4 images, Droid 7.0, ATV 6.4 ect.

Building Instructions
1 - Install packages on your buildserver

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sudo apt-get install -y autoconf automake bison bzip2 chrpath coreutils cpio curl cvs debianutils default-jre default-jre-headless diffstat flex g++ gawk gcc gcc-8 gettext git git-core gzip help2man info iputils-ping java-common libc6-dev libegl1-mesa libglib2.0-dev libncurses5-dev libperl4-corelibs-perl libproc-processtable-perl libsdl1.2-dev libserf-dev libtool libxml2-utils make ncurses-bin patch perl pkg-config psmisc python3 python3-git python3-jinja2 python3-pexpect python3-pip python-setuptools qemu quilt socat sshpass subversion tar texi2html texinfo unzip wget xsltproc xterm xz-utils zip zlib1g-dev

2 - Set your shell to /bin/bash.

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sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash

When asked: Install dash as /bin/sh?
select "NO"

3 - Use update-alternatives for having gcc redirected automatically to gcc-8

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sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-7 700 --slave /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-7
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-8 800 --slave /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-8

4 - Repair g++ after gcc8 installation

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sudo apt-get remove -y  g++

sudo apt-get install -y  g++

5 - modify max_user_watches

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echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf
sudo sysctl -n -w fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288

6 - Add user openatvbuilder (Or name of your choice)

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sudo adduser openatvbuilder

7 - Switch to user openatvbuilder

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su openatvbuilder

8 - Switch to home of openatvbuilder

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cd ~

9 - Create folder openatv

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mkdir -p ~/openatv

10 - Switch to folder openatv

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cd openatv

11 - Clone oe-alliance git

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git clone git://github.com/oe-alliance/build-enviroment.git -b 4.4

12 - Switch to folder build-enviroment

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cd build-enviroment

13 - Update build-enviroment

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make update

14 - Finally you can start building a image

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MACHINE=vusolo2 DISTRO=openatv make image

Have fun