diff --git a/KawaHello/libs/kawa.jar b/KawaHello/libs/kawa.jar
new file mode 120000
index 0000000..9f94aa3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/KawaHello/libs/kawa.jar
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../../kawa/kawa.jar
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/LearningAndroid-chapter10/libs/kawa.jar b/LearningAndroid-chapter10/libs/kawa.jar
new file mode 120000
index 0000000..9f94aa3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/LearningAndroid-chapter10/libs/kawa.jar
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../../kawa/kawa.jar
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/LearningAndroid-chapter6/libs/kawa.jar b/LearningAndroid-chapter6/libs/kawa.jar
new file mode 120000
index 0000000..9f94aa3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/LearningAndroid-chapter6/libs/kawa.jar
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../../kawa/kawa.jar
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/LearningAndroid-chapter7/libs/kawa.jar b/LearningAndroid-chapter7/libs/kawa.jar
new file mode 120000
index 0000000..9f94aa3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/LearningAndroid-chapter7/libs/kawa.jar
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../../kawa/kawa.jar
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/LearningAndroid-chapter8/libs/kawa.jar b/LearningAndroid-chapter8/libs/kawa.jar
new file mode 120000
index 0000000..9f94aa3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/LearningAndroid-chapter8/libs/kawa.jar
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../../kawa/kawa.jar
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/LearningAndroid-chapter9/libs/kawa.jar b/LearningAndroid-chapter9/libs/kawa.jar
new file mode 120000
index 0000000..9f94aa3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/LearningAndroid-chapter9/libs/kawa.jar
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../../kawa/kawa.jar
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/LunarLander/libs/kawa.jar b/LunarLander/libs/kawa.jar
new file mode 120000
index 0000000..9f94aa3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/LunarLander/libs/kawa.jar
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../../kawa/kawa.jar
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/README.org b/README.org
index b611cb7..e332e75 100644
--- a/README.org
+++ b/README.org
@@ -13,18 +13,12 @@ distribution's package management software will help with this. Once
 you're done, run /android/, select and install the latest API
 revision (17 as of this document).
 
-You will need Java 1.6, dex is unhappy with 1.7. Running
-#+BEGIN_SRC sh
-javac -version
-#+END_SRC
-should yield something that starts with 1.6, if not you're going to
-have to use your distribution's package manager to switch to Java 1.6.
-
 To get started with Scheme you'll need a custom build for Kawa, this
 will fetch and build the latest sources
 #+BEGIN_SRC sh
 bin/setup-kawa <android-home> <android-platform>
 #+END_SRC
+
 You'll need to point it to your android SDK directory and give it the
 platform number. On my machine this looks like:
 #+BEGIN_SRC sh
@@ -54,15 +48,29 @@ or for example uninstall it you would use the package name, for example
 adb uninstall kawa.example
 #+END_SRC
 
-Before we can run anything you'll need to either connect a phone with
-developer mode enabled or set up an emulator. We can do the latter
-with
+*** Running on the phone
+
+Building and running are both done by the same script.
+#+BEGIN_SRC sh
+cd SpeedRead && ./make-and-send
+#+END_SRC
+This will create an apk and send it out to the phone and run it. When
+you modify the code just rerun make-and-send. Your first compile will
+likely be slow but subsequent ones will be much faster. When you're
+done you can clean up with
+#+BEGIN_SRC sh
+adb uninstall zeroxab.speedread
+#+END_SRC
+
+*** Running in the emulator
+
+You first need to set up the emulator by running
 #+BEGIN_SRC sh
 android create avd -a -n Test -t 1 --abi armeabi-v7a
 #+END_SRC
-and just accept the defaults. If you've got a plain-vanilla SDK setup
-id 1 will be the basic android platform. You can check with /android
-list targets/ and adjust accordingly. Once it's setup it, just run
+and accepting the defaults. If you've got a plain-vanilla SDK setup id
+1 will be the basic android platform. You can check with /android list
+targets/ and adjust accordingly. Once it's setup it, just run
 #+BEGIN_SRC sh
 bin/start-emulator
 #+END_SRC
@@ -70,14 +78,8 @@ to fire it up, it'll take a while...  The emulator is so obscenely
 slow that you'll want to either run things on your phone or set up
 vmware.
 
-Once the emulator is up and running lets take our new project out for
-a spin
-#+BEGIN_SRC sh
-cd HelloWorld && ./make-and-send
-#+END_SRC
-This will create an apk and send it out to either an emulator that
-we're already running or to a phone we've connected. When you modify
-the code just rerun make-and-send.
+Running and building work the same way they do for the phone from the
+same /make-and-send/ script.
 
 *** Debugging
 
@@ -85,8 +87,7 @@ While debugging I have
 #+BEGIN_SRC sh
 bin/colorize-adb-logcat
 #+END_SRC
-running in a terminal to easily spot log messages. I haven't yet
-bothered figuring out how to set up a debugger.
+running in a terminal to easily spot log messages.
 
 *** XML sanity
 
@@ -138,16 +139,12 @@ quirks. All examples try to mostly stay true to their source however
 badly designed that source was. As such this isn't a good place to
 look for good Scheme style or idiomatic Kawa.
 
-To get the examples to work you need to set them up
-#+BEGIN_SRC sh
-bin/setup-examples
-#+END_SRC
+In general these are meant to be read, not necessarily run as such I
+don't always keep them up to date.
 
 You may need to update local.properties in each of the examples
 directory to change the path to the Android SDK.
 
-This has been tested with Android SDK r15 and r17.
-
 LearningAndroid examples need to a copy of jtwitter.jar and
 signpost-core-1.2.1.1.jar from
 http://www.winterwell.com/software/jtwitter.php in each of their libs
@@ -204,9 +201,11 @@ hand by casting it explicitly.
 #+END_SRC
 *** no known slot '...' in java.lang.Object
 As above, Kawa can't figure out the type of the object you're trying
-to use and at some point ended up casting it to Object. Likely you've
+to use and at some point ended up casting it to Object. Vou've
 got something like a function or let binding where you didn't specify
-a type. You can either do that or cast as in the above section.
+a type. You can either specify one or cast as in the above section.
+
+((lunarView:getThread):pause)
 
 This might also happen if you have a misspelled identifier. 
 *** no possibly applicable method '<init>/valueOf' in ...
@@ -215,3 +214,7 @@ You've got code like
 (make <something> args ...)
 #+END_SRC
 and one of the arguments is of the wrong type.
+*** Unfortunately, <application name> has stopped.
+Run 'adb logcat' or 'bin/colorize-adb-logcat' and have a look at the
+RuntimeException. Right now there's no interactive debugger but one is
+in the pipeline.
diff --git a/SpeedRead/libs/kawa.jar b/SpeedRead/libs/kawa.jar
new file mode 120000
index 0000000..9f94aa3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/SpeedRead/libs/kawa.jar
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../../kawa/kawa.jar
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/bin/make-project b/bin/make-project
index d66e36c..da4c14f 100755
--- a/bin/make-project
+++ b/bin/make-project
@@ -30,12 +30,12 @@ NAME=$2
 ACTIVITY=$3
 PKG=$4
 
-android create project --target ${TARGET} --name ${NAME} --activity ${ACTIVITY} --path ${NAME} --package ${PKG}
+android create project --target ${TARGET} --name ${NAME} --activity ${ACTIVITY} --path ${NAME} --package ${PKG} > /dev/null || (echo "Failed to create an android project! File a bug at github.com/abarbu/android-kawa" && exit 1)
 rm -f ${NAME}/src/${PKG_PATH}/${ACTIVITY}.jar
 touch ${NAME}/src/${PKG_PATH}/${ACTIVITY}.scm
 ln -s `pwd`/kawa/kawa-1.*.jar ${NAME}/libs/kawa.jar
 
-cat > ${NAME}/build.xml.patch <<EOF
+(cd ${NAME}; (patch -p0 <<\EOF
 --- build.xml.orig	2010-10-11 15:48:59.092681778 -0700
 +++ build.xml	2010-11-04 22:26:34.565673740 -0700
 @@ -64,4 +64,27 @@
@@ -67,8 +67,8 @@ cat > ${NAME}/build.xml.patch <<EOF
 +
  </project>
 EOF
-
-(cd ${NAME}; patch < build.xml.patch)
+) > /dev/null \
+  || (echo "Failed to patch the build file! File a bug at github.com/abarbu/android-kawa" && exit 1))
 echo "adb shell kill \$(adb shell ps|grep -i ${PKG}|awk  '{ print $2 }') > /dev/null" > ${NAME}/make-and-send
 echo "ant debug && adb install -r bin/${NAME}-debug.apk && adb shell am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN ${PKG}/.${ACTIVITY}" >> ${NAME}/make-and-send
 chmod +x ${NAME}/make-and-send
diff --git a/bin/setup-examples b/bin/setup-examples
deleted file mode 100755
index d2f1220..0000000
--- a/bin/setup-examples
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-if [ ! -d kawa ]; then
-   echo "Error: Kawa should exist in the kawa/ directory as set up by bin/setup-kawa."
-   exit 1;
-fi
-
-ln -s `pwd`/kawa/kawa-1.*.jar KawaHello/libs/kawa.jar
-ln -s `pwd`/kawa/kawa-1.*.jar LearningAndroid-chapter10/libs/kawa.jar
-ln -s `pwd`/kawa/kawa-1.*.jar LearningAndroid-chapter6/libs/kawa.jar
-ln -s `pwd`/kawa/kawa-1.*.jar LearningAndroid-chapter7/libs/kawa.jar
-ln -s `pwd`/kawa/kawa-1.*.jar LearningAndroid-chapter8/libs/kawa.jar
-ln -s `pwd`/kawa/kawa-1.*.jar LearningAndroid-chapter9/libs/kawa.jar
-ln -s `pwd`/kawa/kawa-1.*.jar LunarLander/libs/kawa.jar
-ln -s `pwd`/kawa/kawa-1.*.jar SpeedRead/libs/kawa.jar
diff --git a/bin/setup-kawa b/bin/setup-kawa
index f67bbda..25c5405 100755
--- a/bin/setup-kawa
+++ b/bin/setup-kawa
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
 set -e
+set -o pipefail
 
 EXPECTED_ARGS=2
 E_BADARGS=65
@@ -10,16 +11,10 @@ KAWA_VERSION=1.13
 if [ $# -lt $EXPECTED_ARGS ]; then
     echo "Usage: `basename $0` android-home android-platform"
     echo "	Setup a Kawa install in the current directory for a particular Android version."
-    echo "	for example: bin/setup-kawa /opt/android-sdk-update-manager android-14"
+    echo "	for example: bin/setup-kawa /opt/android-sdk-update-manager android-17"
     exit $E_BADARGS
 fi
 
-if [[ -z $(javac -version 2>&1 | grep 1.6) ]]; then
-    echo "Your javac is not version 1.6.*"
-    echo "   dex can't process files from any other version, you'll need to downgrade"
-    exit
-fi
-
 echo "Fetching Kawa ${KAWA_VERSION}"
 if [ -e kawa ]; then
     rm -r kawa
@@ -30,8 +25,40 @@ fi
 tar xvf kawa-1.13.tar.gz
 mv kawa-${KAWA_VERSION} kawa
 cd kawa
+echo "Patching kawa"
+patch -p0 <<\EOF
+--- Makefile.am.orig	2013-07-17 09:36:47.448268287 -0400
++++ Makefile.am	2012-11-22 02:11:40.000000000 -0500
+@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@
+ COMMENT_OUT = s|^\([[:space:]]*\)\([^/[:space:]]\)|\1// \2|
+ 
+ gnu/kawa/util/PreProcess.class: $(srcdir)/gnu/kawa/util/PreProcess.java
+-	$(JAVAC) -d . $(srcdir)/gnu/kawa/util/PreProcess.java
++	$(JAVAC) -d . $(JAVACFLAGS) $(srcdir)/gnu/kawa/util/PreProcess.java
+ 
+ # JDK 1.1
+ select-java1: $(srcdir)/patch-source-list gnu/kawa/util/PreProcess.class
+EOF
+patch -p0 <<\EOF
+--- Makefile.in.orig	2013-07-17 09:36:49.229268472 -0400
++++ Makefile.in	2012-12-09 02:29:46.000000000 -0500
+@@ -959,7 +959,7 @@
+ 	  | sed -e 's|./||' | sort > $@
+ 
+ gnu/kawa/util/PreProcess.class: $(srcdir)/gnu/kawa/util/PreProcess.java
+-	$(JAVAC) -d . $(srcdir)/gnu/kawa/util/PreProcess.java
++	$(JAVAC) -d . $(JAVACFLAGS) $(srcdir)/gnu/kawa/util/PreProcess.java
+ 
+ # JDK 1.1
+ select-java1: $(srcdir)/patch-source-list gnu/kawa/util/PreProcess.class
+EOF
 echo "Building kawa"
-./configure --with-android=$1/platforms/$2/android.jar --disable-xquery --disable-jemacs
+JAVACFLAGS="-source 1.6 -target 1.6" ./configure --with-android=$1/platforms/$2/android.jar --disable-xquery --disable-jemacs || (echo "Failed to configure Kawa!"; exit 1)
 # Because kawa docs sometimes fail to build.
 echo '' > doc/kawa.texi
-make
+make || (echo "Failed to build Kawa!"; exit 1)
+cd ..
+rm kawa-1.13.tar.gz
+ln -s `pwd`/kawa/kawa-1.*.jar kawa/kawa.jar
+echo
+echo "Done! We're good to go"