1. Introduction

Cubieboard6 is the sixth generation product of Cubieboards , Cubietech customized a android5.1.1 os , and open the source code to the community .

2. Overview

  • This is a quick guide for Cubieboard6 SDK :
  • How to set up PC compilation environment
  • How to download SDK
  • How to build and pack a image

3. Software requirements

  • Developing host PC with Linux os , Ubuntu12.04 AMD64 is suggested
  • USB upgrading tools : FW Burning Tool(for Linux)or FW Burning Tool(for Windows)
  • Cross-compilation environment

4. Configure shell

①Set the shell to bash

$ rm –rf /bin/sh

$ ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh

②Verification

$ ls -l /bin/sh

As shown in below ,it means configure successfully

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 10 月 9 17:44 /bin/sh -> /bin/bash*

5. Install JDK

$wget dl.cubieboard.org/software/tools/android/java-7-openjdk-amd64.tar.bz2

$sudo cp java-7-openjdk-amd64.tar.bz2  /work

$ cd  /work

$ tar -jxvf java-7-openjdk-amd64.tar.bz2

$ sudo vim ~/.bashrc

Add the following tree sentences

JAVA_HOME=/work/java-7-openjdk-amd64 
export JRE_HOME=/work/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$JRE_HOME/bin:$PATH

Save and verify:

$source ~/.bashrc

java -version

It is successful.

6. Cross-compilation environment set up

On your Ubuntu12.04 the below tools need to be installed :

$sudo apt-get update

$sudo apt-get upgrade

$sudo apt-get install build-essential u-boot-tools uboot-mkimage binutils-arm-linux-gnueabihf

$sudo apt-get install gcc g++ gcc-arm-linux-gnueabi gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf g++-multilib

$sudo apt-get install cpp-arm-linux-gnueabihf libusb-1.0-0 libusb-1.0-0-dev wget fakeroot

$sudo apt-get install kernel-package zlib1g-dev libncurses5-dev build-essential

$sudo apt-get install texinfo texlive ccache zlib1g-dev gawk bison flex gettext uuid-dev

$sudo apt-get install ia32-libs git gnupg flex bison gperf build-essential zip

$sudo apt-get install curl libc6-dev x11proto-core-dev libx11-dev:i386 lib32ncurses5-dev

$sudo apt-get install libreadline6-dev:i386 mingw32 tofrodos python-markdown

$sudo apt-get install libxml2-utils xsltproc zlib1g-dev:i386 libgl1-mesa-dev

Tips: If your pc already configure Android4.2 or Android 4.4 building environment，you shouldn't reinstall tools again.

7. Download SDK

You can download the Cubieboard6 sdk from here:

Link：mege-click me Path：Cubieboard6>Source>Android>v2.3-20170205

8. Building

Before Building,CB6 android source code must switch branch to cubieboard6_v2.3

①check branch
Execute the command in your source code directory

$git branch -a

As shown in the figure below，current branch is cubieboard6_v2.3，so you don't need to switch.If current branch is not cubieboard6_v2.3,you must switch branch like step ②.

②switch branch
As shown in the figure below

③Configure board type
Enter “owl” document and execute the command.

$ ./config.sh

tips：（choose gb5_wxga）
④compile
Enter “owl” document and execute the command.

$ make

⑤compile firmware successfully：

tips：

1.The firmware in owl/out/s500_android_gb5_wxga/images
2.The firmware is named after date,if you compile more than one firmware,you must rename the last firmware.

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