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I’m trying to build the android source on an Ubuntu virtual machine with virtualbox. When I compile, I get an error stating that the source must be compiled on a case sensitive file system. Linux is obviously case sensitive, but I wonder if it is detecting my windows disk. Does anybody have any experience with this sort of thing? Thanks
It depends what you mean by “detecting your Windows disk”.
Ubuntu does not distinguish between a native hard disk and an image file that resides on a Windows file system. In both cases, case sensitivity depends only on the file system visible to Ubuntu. So, if you create an ext3/4, btrfs,… partition, it will be case-sensitive.
However, if you share a directory between Windows and the guest operating system, case-sensitivity is inherited from the host file system. If that file system is case-insensitive, Ubuntu will see a case-insensitive file system. I guess, that’s the problem in your case? As solution, I’d move the build process to some non-shared location, i.e. some path in your Ubuntu-local file system.