mac on linux,building Linux kernel on Mac OS X

Compile Kernel using AOSP's prebuilts

I've made symlinks to the missing OSX headers from the linux host ones and apparently it worked out well! In my setup I have sync'd the whole AOSP repo, which includes all prebuilts, but the ones that I am actually using to built the kernel are:

Missing Linux headers: gcc/linux-x86/host/x86_64-linux-glibc2.11-4.8

Cross compiler: gcc/darwin-x86/arm/arm-eabi-4.8/

Clone them so that the following directory tree is valid:

/prebuilts/

/prebuilts/gcc/linux-x86/host/x86_64-linux-glibc2.11-4.8/

/prebuilts/gcc/darwin-x86/arm/arm-eabi-4.8/

Make sure you checkout the appropriate branch/tag, according to your Android target version.

Install the missing headers

Not sure if it's the proper way to do it, but putting the a bunch of linux headers in /usr/local/include resolves all issues. Don't forget to chmod +x the script.

install_headers.sh:

#!/bin/sh

PREBUILTS_DIR="/prebuilts" # fill in the path here!

PREBUILT_GCC=$PREBUILTS_DIR"/gcc/linux-x86/host/x86_64-linux-glibc2.11-4.8"

KERNEL_HEADERS=$PREBUILT_GCC"/sysroot/usr/include"

HOST_HEADERS="/usr/local/include"

function install_header() {

header=$1

ln -s $KERNEL_HEADERS/$header $HOST_HEADERS/$header

}

# create symlinks for the missing headers

install_header elf.h

install_header features.h

# the following are folders (that contain headers)

install_header bits

install_header gnu

install_header linux

install_header asm

install_header asm-generic

Build the kernel

export PATH=/prebuilts/gcc/darwin-x86/arm/arm-eabi-4.8/bin:$PATH

export ARCH=arm

export SUBARCH=arm

export CROSS_COMPILE=arm-eabi-

# in this example it builds for N6

make shamu_defconfig

make -j8

Voila:

Kernel: arch/arm/boot/zImage-dtb is ready

My configuration

macOS Sierra 10.12.3

XCode: using MacOSX10.11.sdk, which allows building AOSP on mac

Target device: N6/shamu

AOSP branch: Marshmallow (updated mac_version.mk in build to allow using 10.12.3 sdk)