Thanks.
In fact, I have too many questions, but I am not sure if it's proper to ask. Any way, I will try to make my questions clear and making sense.
Meanwhile, I killed the VM of Ubuntu16 32bit, because I can't pass compiling libpng and I can't figure out what's the cause from error message. I tried Ubuntu 10 and I guess it's too old for OpenELEC 5.0.8. Now I am trying Ubuntu 14.
I am trying to find some good purpose for the old laptop. Trying OpenELEC and older Linux distributions is what I am doing right now.
I have some S905X3 tvbox running CoreELEC and EmulELEC smoothly. I am satisfied.
It's true that the old 16yo laptop is completely garbage comparing to ARM box. I am keeping the old laptop just for retro fun, not for any serious usage.
Thanks.
I have only used Kodi on OpenELEC 5.0.8 to play local and SMB media, quite smooth. Haven't tried any online media, like Youtube, Nexflix.
I will search the forum for more i386 port discussion.
What concerns me much is that even if I can port newer version of Kodi, LibreELEC to i386, old hardware still can't run smoothly. In fact, I have managed to upgrade the old laptop to Windows 7 without official support. I searched for driver for every device one by one. I finally made it but decided to fallback to Windows XP at once, because merely running OS occupied most of CPU loading.
GPU is Intel 915GM.
BTW, I am still waiting for compiling to complete. While compiling Kodi, the 20GB disk space on VM was not enough. I decide to create a new VM with 40GB disk space. The compiling has to re-start again.
Thanks.
For a novice like me, not knowing where to start from, porting LibreELEC or OpenELEC to i386 are too hard for me. That's a goal that I can never reach. I know it.
Currently, my main objective is to add some newer package update to OpenELEC 5.0.8. In this way, I can know the structure of OpenELEC source code and learn how to achieve small goals, step by step. I hope so.
Hi, I am novice to compile and want to learn something by doing. I need some guide about compiling OpenELEC.
I have an old (16 years old) laptop with Pentium M 740, which is an i386 CPU. The latest OpenELEC for i386 machine is OpenELEC 5.0.8. I have tried and run OpenELEC 5.0.8 smoothly. It's good.
Since OpenELEC has discontinued development for i386 after 5.0.8. I think maybe I can compile newer OpenELEC from souce code. Not a serious project, just for fun and learning.
First, I started from compiling OpenELEC 5.0.8. During compiling, I found many of the required packages are to be downloaded from Internet, and the URLs are old and invalid. The URL has been changed. I can't find any clue about where the URL is coded in source code, so I setup a local HTTPD, find the packages from else where, put them under HTTPD root doc dir and make the router redirect invalid URL to the local HTTPD. I have to do it one package by another. It's slow, but making progress.
Could someone give me a clue how to find the coded URL in source code?
Second, if I can compile OpenELEC 5.0.8 successfully (the compiling is still running while I am typing), the next thing I want to do is replace old packages, such as wlan-firmware-0.0.27.tar.xz, freetype-2.5.5.tar.bz2, and so on, to their newer version. I know that it's not necessary and may introduce new problems. Just want to try it.
Could someone tell me how to replace old packages? I guess it has something to do with messing with MAKE file, but I don't where to start.
Thanx for any help in advance.
