I'm not 100% sure, but ISTR there are two problems:
a) Kodi has dependencies on samba 3.x and they need to bump to 4.x before we can use it
b) Samba changed its compile process between 3.x and 4.x and it became a challenge to cross-compile
I believe someone gave up on B as there was no point until A happened, but that was some time ago. I'm not sure anything changed though.