Update the docs explaining how to build an SDK.
Change-Id: Ib01ad69119152d10cc19ed6e2188621782ecc903
diff --git a/docs/howto_SDK_git_cygwin.txt b/docs/howto_SDK_git_cygwin.txt
index 42da18b..622c592 100644
--- a/docs/howto_SDK_git_cygwin.txt
+++ b/docs/howto_SDK_git_cygwin.txt
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
Subject: How to get the android source code using Cygwin and Git
Date: 2009/04/27
Updated: 2009/05/21
+Updated: 2010/03/30
Table of content:
@@ -33,15 +34,20 @@
repositories under Windows.
As stated in development/docs/howto_build_SDK.txt, one can't build the whole
-Android source code under Windows. You can only build a the SDK tools for
+Android source code under Windows. You can only build the SDK tools for
Windows.
There are a number of caveats in checking out the code from Git under Windows.
This document tries to explain them.
First you will need to meet the following requirements:
-- You must have Cygwin installed.
- See http://www.cygwin.com/
+- You must have Cygwin installed. But wait! You CANNOT use the latest Cygwin 1.7.
+ Instead you MUST use the "legacy Cygwin 1.5" that you can find at this page:
+
+ http://cygwin.org/win-9x.html
+
+ Don't mind the page title, just grab setup-legacy.exe and it will works just fine
+ under XP or Vista.
- You must install Cyginw using the "Unix / Binary" mode.
If you don't do that, git will fail to properly compute some SHA1 keys.
@@ -51,6 +57,9 @@
Note: if you want to build the SDK, check the howto_build_SDK.txt file
for a list of extra required packages.
+ The short summary is that you need at least these:
+ autoconf, bison, curl, flex, gcc, g++, git, gnupg, make, mingw-zlib, python, unzip, zip
+ and you must avoid the "readline" package.
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