Compiling Android Froyo for HTC's EVO4

This is a WIP.

1. Grab the latest source code from http://developer.htc.com/ - As of this writing, the latest is http://member.america.htc.com/download/RomCode/Source_and_Binaries/supersonic-2.6.32.15-g746f4f0.tar.gz
2. Download the Android NDK (not a typo) from http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/index.html - As of this writing, the latest for Linux is http://dl.google.com/android/ndk/android-ndk-r4b-linux-x86.zip
3. Extract both archives, set env vars as convenient
   
4. Add android-ndk-r4b/build/prebuilt/linux-x86/arm-eabi-4.4.0/bin to your $PATH
5. export ARCH=arm
6. export PLATFORM=supersonic
   
7. supersonic-2.6.32.15-g746f4f0/make supersonic_defconfig
8. supersonic-2.6.32.15-g746f4f0/make

eric@fender:~/supersonic-2.6.32.15-g746f4f0$ ls -l vmlinux
-rwxr-xr-x 1 eric eric 54552672 2010-08-11 21:48 vmlinux

Similar instructions should work for other Android phones, but YYMV.

Now to apply the AAC patch and remove those crappy Sprint apps.