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authorsandbank52641 <153552626+sandbank52641@users.noreply.github.com>2024-07-14 17:05:03 +0200
committerDaniel Micay <daniel.micay@grapheneos.org>2024-07-20 12:01:32 -0400
commitf6d32808f8486a944691d463356f46cd1c2c0940 (patch)
tree2e52d42b8d4bb143ebd988cbb92fdd54e78baa54 /static/build.html
parent993cba286506ad91a129d842f32f4f42ddc122b6 (diff)
use Protobuf library for Python from PyPI
Even with fairly up-to-date packages, many Linux distributions have not recent enough Python Protobuf packages. It's better to use the PyPI package, which is published by Google, rather than the distribution packages. Ideally, adevtool could handle this (with pinned package version and hash, and hash-checking), but due to many users encountering this issue, this change should be reasonable for now.
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<p>Additional dependencies for extracting vendor files with adevtool:</p>
<ul>
+ <li>Optional: venv module for Python 3</li>
<li>protobuf library for Python 3</li>
<li>Node.js 18 LTS</li>
<li>yarn</li>
@@ -382,11 +383,44 @@ source build/envsetup.sh
lunch sdk_phone64_x86_64-ap2a-user
m aapt2</pre>
+ <div class="notice">
+ <p class="notice-heading">Optional</p>
+
+ <p>Run the following additional commands once to create a working
+ environment if your Linux distribution (such as Debian bookworm) doesn't
+ have the Protobuf library for Python 3 package version (5.)27.2 or later.
+ This installs the latest library version in a Python 3 virtual
+ environment.</p>
+
+ <pre>python3 -m venv venv
+source venv/bin/activate
+pip install protobuf
+deactivate</pre>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="notice">
+ <p class="notice-heading">Optional</p>
+
+ <p>If you have installed the Protobuf library in the Python 3 virtual
+ environment, activate the environment:</p>
+
+ <pre>source venv/bin/activate</pre>
+ </div>
+
<p>Download, extract and prepare the vendor files:</p>
<pre>adevtool generate-all -d <var>PIXEL_CODENAME</var></pre>
<p>Replace <code><var>PIXEL_CODENAME</var></code> with Pixel device codename, which is the same as <a href="#build-targets">build target name</a>.</p>
+
+ <div class="notice">
+ <p class="notice-heading">Optional</p>
+
+ <p>If you have installed the Protobuf library in the Python 3 virtual
+ environment, deactivate the environment:</p>
+
+ <pre>deactivate</pre>
+ </div>
</section>
<section id="setting-up-the-os-build-environment">