Asking for a LibreELEC build for MediaImport

LongMan · January 3, 2021 at 12:29 AM

I am asking a LibreELEC team member to do us a favour by running a Build of MediaImport Beta 2. Milhouse had previously done builds for us before but he has stopped doing builds. Hopefully one of you can help us.

Thanks,

LongMan

**chewitt** · January 3, 2021 at 5:13 AM Official Post

Montellesse's repo is forked from the upstream Kodi repo so it shouldn't be much harder than a one-line change to package.mk to build with a different PKG_VERSION using the githash of the last/latest commit in his repo. Also set PKG_SHA256="" .. and build. It's simple enough (and our build-system is simple enough) that the community can step up to do the building insteaf of increasing the output burden on a small number of developers. Hopefully the code for this goes upstream at some point..

LongMan · January 3, 2021 at 11:25 AM

Thanks for taking the time to reply and suggest a solution. I will do a bit of research to see how it is done.

Cheers,

LongMan

LongMan · January 18, 2021 at 2:08 PM

chewitt,

Thanks for your guidance. You are right, it was relatiely straight forward to build LibreELEC. Thanks for that. I built a Ubuntu 20.04 server and followed the instructions here. I was able to build 9.2 branch and 9.8 (master). It has been a long learning curve not necessarily hard just long because it took nearly half a day when I tried to build different packages. But I have succeeded in building the branches I mentioned before.

My current problem is that when I search for package.mk, I am getting maybe hundreds of hits. Could you provide a bit more specific guidance as the where I need to make those two changes.

Thanks

LongMan

**chewitt** · January 19, 2021 at 5:28 AM Official Post

packages/mediacentre/kodi/package.mk is where the Kodi version is defined

**CvH** · January 19, 2021 at 10:54 AM Official Post

I already build it, I just used the patches from upstream and placed them into the kodi patch folder.

I can push a git branch if you like.

LongMan · January 19, 2021 at 3:20 PM

CvH Thanks. Please do.

Also since I have already started down the road with learning how to do it, Would you mind sharing the patch that you used.

Thanks,

LongMan

M4tt0 · January 31, 2021 at 7:42 PM

CvH Not sure you've pushed your branch already. If so, I couldn't find it. In any case, also interested in how you obtained the patch file and how you patched LE with it, as I'd like to compile CE Mediaimport builds to broaden the test user base (and test it myself) once Matrix is released...