Thanks to Brock Tice from virtuallyshocking.com we have our first article here at androidx86.org. It summarizes the basic steps how to compile android for x86 based systems. Let me add this: make sure that you use the right version of gcc. The version 4.3 on Ubuntu 8.10 caused only trouble, add CC=gcc-4.2 CXX=g++-4.2 on the make line, to avoid those problems. This article was copied from here wit