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We assume you have latest version of Ubuntu already installed on your pc and $HOME/twrp/ is your working dir for all this.

1. Getting twrp minimal manifest compressed sources

Downloading

Get the right version of Compressed Source i.e. don't try higher version then your stock rom unless you're using a custom kernel which supports the latest source. We commonly use 5.1 norepo for stable and debug builds.

Extracting

Run this in dir where you've saved the compressed source:

tar -xvf omni_twrp-{version}-{date}-norepo.tar.xz --directory $HOME/twrp/

Note:

• replace omni_twrp-{version}-{date}-norepo.tar.xz with the filename you've downloaded

2. Setting up build environment

Installing packages

sudo apt-get install bison build-essential curl flex git gnupg gperf libesd0-dev liblz4-tool libncurses5-dev libsdl1.2-dev libwxgtk2.8-dev libxml2 libxml2-utils lzop maven openjdk-7-jdk pngcrush schedtool squashfs-tools xsltproc zip zlib1g-dev

In addition to the above, for 64-bit systems, get these:

sudo apt-get install g++-multilib gcc-multilib lib32ncurses5-dev lib32readline-gplv2-dev lib32z1-dev

For Ubuntu 15.10 (wily) and newer, substitute:

lib32readline-gplv2-dev -> lib32readline6-dev

Installing java

Add Java ppa

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openjdk-r/ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk

For Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) and newer, substitute (additionally see java notes below):

libwxgtk2.8-dev -> libwxgtk3.0-dev

openjdk-7-jdk -> openjdk-8-jdk

3. Making tree using jar and building twrp

Cloning common tree

git clone https://github.com/TwrpBuilder/device_generic_twrpbuilder.git device/generic/twrpbuilder

Making tree using recovery image

• Download the latest TWRP-Tree-Generator and save it in same dir with the source from previous step
• Run this java -jar TwrpBuilder-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar -r recovery.img
  • replace recovery.img with your file name and output should be like this

   $ java -jar tb.jar -r recovery.img
   Building tree using: recovery.img
   Found gzip comression in ramdisk
   Making omni_q417.mk
   Making Android.mk
   Making AndroidProducts.mk
   Making kernel.mk
   Generating fstab
   /data ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p3
   /system ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p6
   /cache ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
   found mt6735 platform
   Found 64 bit arch
   Build fingerPrint: Micromax/Q417/Q417:5.1/LMY47D/1446202623:user/release-keys
   tree ready for q417 at device/micromax/q417
   Warning :- Check recovery fstab before build

Finally building the TWRP

In my case codename is q417, so wI will use q417 to build

cd ~/twrp
. build/envsetup.sh
lunch omni_q417-eng
make -j4 recoveryimage