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Compile from source | OpenELEC Mediacenter Home FAQ OpenELEC FAQ Raspberry Pi FAQ Kodi FAQ (external) Community FAQ Privacy FAQ Documentation Supported Platforms Intel x86 Raspberry Pi 1 & 2 WeTek Play Cubox-i Installing OpenELEC Basic Install Guide Manual Installation Dual Boot Network Boot - NFS Network Boot - iSCSI User guide Adding Media Sources Configuring Screen Resolutions Configuring Audio Accessing Samba Server Useful Terminal Commands Kodi Wiki (external) Kodi Addons (external) Configuration Updating OpenELEC Compile from source Development workflow Downloads Forum Donate Home Documentation Compile from source Table of contents: IntroductionNavigateCompiling and Build Systems Tools you will need Ubuntu 14.04 + Fedora 21 Workstation Download from Github Start compiling Introduction First of all, you need to have a recent Linux distribution, Fedora 20/21, Ubuntu 14.04, ARCH Linux, SuSE Linux) and at least 15 GB of self-ruling space.NavigateCompiling and Build Systems The heart of the OpenELEC project is our software build system. It supports a software towers technique tabbed cross-compiling; the process of creating executable lawmaking that runs on one hardware platform from something other than that platform.Navigatecompiling is a crucial function for the OpenELEC project for the pursuit reasons: It allows us to build 32bit and 64bit packages and OpenELEC images. It does not matter whether the build-host itself is 32bit or 64bit. It allows us to build OpenELEC for a range of variegated CPU architectures like x86, ARM and PowerPC. This tutorial will help you navigate compile an ARM uniform OpenELEC image from an x86 uniform build-host. There is no dependency on the particular versions of compiler, libc and Linux kernel headers installed on the build-host. We cross-compile our own versions to ensure we unchangingly produce resulting and properly built software packages. It allows you to run any Linux distribution as your build system. No matter what your personal preference the resulting OpenELEC image will unchangingly be the same. It allows us to use the full power of the build-host. Like most ARM devices the Raspberry Pi does not have super fast CPU’s or lots of memory and it uses low-cost but slow USB and flash-card memory for storage; making it unsuitable for native towers of large and ramified software. Other Linux distributions targetting Raspberry Pi plan to use emulator tools like QEMU that were designed to test and run small software projects to build a full Operating System and it scares us to think how slow and error prone this will be. Even a highly optimised “minimalist” OS like OpenELEC involves the megacosm of ~500,000 small files during compilation so it’s simple worldwide sense to navigate compile and leverage the significantly largest resources of a fast local build-host. Tools you will need Start by updating your system (on Ubuntu or other Debian-based distribution): Note: Debian does not need "sudo" however the commands are identical once sudo is removed. Note: at least gcc-4.7 is required. sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install make Reconfigure to whack so we have weightier possible script compatibility sudo dpkg-reconfigure soupcon and select no, to install whack as the default Then, install build tools Ubuntu 14.04 + you will need libxml-parser-perl sudo apt-get install libxml-parser-perl Fedora 21 Workstation yum install autoconf automake binutils cpp cvs gcc gcc-c++ glibc-devel glibc-headers glibc-static kernel-devel kernel-headers libmpc libstdc++-devel libstdc++-static ncurses-devel perl-libintl perl-Test-Harness perl-Text-Unidecode perl-Thread-Queue texinfo Download from Github git clone https://github.com/OpenELEC/OpenELEC.tv.git A new folder tabbed OpenELEC.tv will be created. Start compiling Be sure to have lot of self-ruling space - at least 15 GB.Largestmore than less. In a terminal go to the folder that was just created. cd OpenELEC.tv Option 1: To build a bootable disk and update image for 64bit computer with AMD or modern Nvidia cards that are not listed here http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_32667.html PROJECT=Generic ARCH=x86_64 make image Option 2: To build a bootable disk and update image for 64bit computer with old Nvidia GPU that are listed under secion 304.xx and few newer ones here http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_32667.html PROJECT=Nvidia_Legacy ARCH=x86_64 make image Option 3: To build a bootable disk and update image for raspberry pi/zero: PROJECT=RPi ARCH=arm make image Option 4: To build a bootable disk and update image for raspberry pi2/pi3: PROJECT=RPi2 ARCH=arm make image Option 5: To build a bootable disk and update image for WeTek Play: PROJECT=WeTek_Play ARCH=arm make image Option 6: To build a bootable disk and update image for Freescale iMX6: PROJECT=imx6 ARCH=arm make image Take a unravel without hitting return. When the build completes, you will find the fresh build in the target directory of your build directory OpenELEC.tv/target/ If you need to wipe and start over do a make wipe and then start the build process again. Copyright © 2009-2018 OpenELEC . All Rights Reserved. Home FAQ OpenELEC FAQ Raspberry Pi FAQ Kodi FAQ (external) Community FAQ Privacy FAQ Documentation Supported Platforms Intel x86 Raspberry Pi 1 & 2 WeTek Play Cubox-i Installing OpenELEC Basic Install Guide Manual Installation Dual Boot Network Boot - NFS Network Boot - iSCSI User guide Adding Media Sources Configuring Screen Resolutions Configuring Audio Accessing Samba Server Useful Terminal Commands Kodi Wiki (external) Kodi Addons (external) Configuration Updating OpenELEC Compile from source Development workflow Downloads Forum Donate