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Install XCode version 3.0, available from http://developer.apple.com/technology/tools.html.

Install MacPorts, available from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/downloads/MacPorts-1.7.0/

Open up a terminal, check /opt/local/bin is at the start of $PATH, and run

sudo port selfupdate

Hopefully it'll say something like:

Password:

MacPorts base version 1.700 installed
Downloaded MacPorts base version 1.700

The MacPorts installation is not outdated so it was not updated

Get these packages from port, with the following command:

POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 sudo port install gmake libsdl git-core gnupg

Go make a cup of coffee, or two, as several minutes will pass, depending on your machine and download speeds, and several terminal screens full of build comments will scroll slowly by.

Installing repo

Go back to your home directory:

cd ~

If you don't already have one make a bin folder:

mkdir bin

Make sure it's on the path:

export PATH=/Users/threaded/bin:$PATH
echo $PATH

Download the repo script:

curl http://android.git.kernel.org/repo >~/bin/repo

Look to see if it is executable:

ls -al ~/bin/repo

Most probably it isn't so:

chmod a+x ~/bin/repo

To build the Android files you're recommended to use a case-sensitive Journaled HFS+. If you don't want to go creating a partition, formatting it, all the other ball-n-chain, you can, on the Mac, create a disk image. It is recommend to be 8 GB, but more won't harm.

What I did:

• launch /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility
• select "New Image"
• Save As: mydroid (in my home directory)
• Volume Name: mydroid
  
• Volume Size: 16 GB (had to do this a couple of times before it 'took')
  
• Volume Format: Mac OS extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled)
• Encryption: none
• Partitions: single partition - Apple Partition
• Image Format: read/write disk image
  

The OS should mount the .dmg file created, at /Volumes/mydroid, and we use this for the following work:

cd /Volumes/mydroid

Run repo init to get the files:

repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git

If you get a permission denied, then you've forgotten to do the chmod to repo mentioned above, like I did. ;-)

After a little huff-n-puff, it'll ask for a name and email. The name should be real, as it'll be used for attributions, and the email address needs to be to a Google account. This doesn't have to be a Gmail address, but that's easiest.

Now you can get the files:

repo sync

Again this is long-winded, so there's time for yet another coffee.

Now, finally you can:

make

If you get:

build/core/main.mk:64: ************************************************************
build/core/main.mk:65: You are building on a case-insensitive filesystem.
build/core/main.mk:66: Please move your source tree to a case-sensitive filesystem.
build/core/main.mk:67: ************************************************************
build/core/main.mk:68: *** Case-insensitive filesystems not supported. Stop.

That'll be because you are not where you think you are, but should rather be inside a Case-Sensitive, Journaled file system. ;-)

Another chance for several more cups of coffee. Lots of warning messages fly by on the terminal that don't really mean that much.

You can see if it works by dragging the newly built emulator to a terminal window:

Volumes/mydroid/out/host/darwin-x86/bin/emulator

which should illicit the response:

emulator: ERROR: You did not specify a virtual machine name, and the system
directory could not be found.

If you are an Android SDK user, please use '@' or '-vm '
to start a given virtual machine (see -help-vm for details).

Otherwise, follow the instructions in -help-disk-images to start the emulator

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