Requirements

Before you download and build the Brillo source, ensure your system meets the following requirements. Then see Initializing a Build Environment for installation instructions by operating system.

Hardware requirements

Your development workstation should meet or exceed these hardware requirements:

• A 64-bit environment is required.
• At least 100GB of free disk space for a checkout, 150GB for a single build, and 200GB or more for multiple builds. If you employ ccache, you will need even more space.
• If you are running Linux in a virtual machine, you need at least 16GB of RAM/swap.

Software requirements

Your workstation will need these software:

• A Linux or Mac OS operating system. It is also possible to build Brillo in a virtual machine on unsupported systems such as Windows. For Linux: Ubuntu 14.04(Trusty) For Mac: Mac OS v10.10(Yosemite) or later
• Java Development Kit(JDK): Java 8
• Python 2.6 -- 2.7, which you can download from python.org.
• GNU Make 3.81 -- 3.82, which you can download form gnu.org.
• Git 1.7 or newer. You can find it at git-scm.com.