GCC 4.0 for compiling android_lollipop

[senthilkumar_s1]

Hi guys,

I am trying to compile android lollipop following the android documents obtained from freescale website(now NXP).I found a note mentioned in it "Because default GCC toolchain from android-5.0.2_rl release is GCC 4.8,which may have issues on ARM Linux kernel compiling,the GCC 4.0 from android-4.4.3_rl is used to compile the Linux Kernel and U-Boot".

So I was forced to stop and started searching GCC 4.0 for compiling lollipop,my question is where to find GCC 4.0 or if GCC 4.6 is sufficient,please reply.

[gusarambula · Accepted solution]

Hello Senthil Kumar,

I'm sorry for the confusion. You do not need to look for the toolchain externally, just following the steps on the Android User's Guide will suffice. The note is just explaining the reason why the different commands are checking our certain code. You can see that the GCC is not cloned from the Android 5.0 repository but from Android 4.4.

I hope this information helps and you can build Android successfully.