These are some issues I faced compiling Android on Linux Mint 17:
Error:
frameworks/base/include/utils/KeyedVector.h:193:31: error: ‘indexOfKey’ was not declared in this scope, and no declarations were found by argument-dependent lookup at the point of instantiation [-fpermissive]
ssize_t i = indexOfKey(key);
Fix:
vi frameworks/base/tools/aapt/Android.mk
Add ‘-fpermissive’ to line 31:
LOCAL_CFLAGS += -Wno-format-y2k -fpermissive
Error:
external/srec/tools/thirdparty/OpenFst/fst/lib/cache.h:136:11: note: use ‘this->SetState’ instead
make: *** [out/host/linux-x86/obj/EXECUTABLES/grxmlcompile_intermediates/grxmlcompile.o] Error 1
Fix:
cd external/srec
wget “https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_external_srec/commit/4d7ae7b79eda47e489669fbbe1f91ec501d42fb2.diff”
patch -p1 < 4d7ae7b79eda47e489669fbbe1f91ec501d42fb2.diff
rm -f 4d7ae7b79eda47e489669fbbe1f91ec501d42fb2.diff
cd ../..
Source: http://blog.csdn.net/yiyaaixuexi/article/details/8330645
Also I installed these programs:
sudo apt-get install multistrap sudo apt-get install u-boot-tools sudo apt-get install xsltproc sudo apt-get install libxml2-utils sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jdk sudo apt-get install libc6-dev-i386 sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib sudo apt-get install libstdc++-4.8-dev sudo apt-get install lib32stdc++-4.8-dev sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev sudo apt-get install lib32z1-dev sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev sudo apt-get install libncurses-dev sudo apt-get install libx32ncurses5-dev