Compiling Boxee

This is just a placeholder for me to put down stuff related to my attempt to compile Boxee.

First you'll need to install Ubuntu Desktop (12.10). I've done so using VMWare Fusion.

After install is complete, download and extract both the IntelCE SDK and the Boxee 1.5.1 source. It can be found at bbx.boxee.tv . Just log in with your boxee account and you'll find it in the downloads section.

Versions I've been using are: boxee-sources-1.5.1-b6a5be1.tar.xz Intel-13.11.232647-dist.tar.bz2

From a terminal window do:

# sudo apt-get install wget patch flex bison gettext libtool autoconf cmake nasm gperf g++ gawk doxygen swig libsdl-image1.2-dev liblzo2-dev php5-cli libncurses5-dev texinfo
# cd /tmp
# wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24099622/python2.4-minimal_2.4.6-1ubuntu3_i386.deb
# sudo dpkg --install python2.4-minimal_2.4.6-1ubuntu3_i386.deb

Then install the IntelCE SDK by going into wherever you downloaded the intel sdk and then:

# cd BASE
# ./installer
# cd ../GPL
# ./installer

The configure and install the SDK:

# cd ~
# cd IntelCE-13.232647
# make menuconfig

accept the default settings once they come up

# sudo make

This will fail at building the display module. To circumvent edit the file package/display/display.mk and in DISPLAY_DEPS remove hdmi_hdcp .

There are still some things that fail, but not yet sure if essential. Try:

# sudo make -k

After this is complete you should have the CE4100 SDK installed!

Now setup the Boxee side:

# sudo mkdir /opt/canmore
# sudo ln -s $HOME/IntelCE-13.232647/build_i686/staging_dir /opt/canmore/IntelCE
# sudo ln -s $HOME/IntelCE-13.232647/build_i686/staging_dir/bin /opt/canmore/toolchains
# sudo ln -s $HOME/IntelCE-13.232647/project_build_i686/IntelCE/root /opt/canmore/targetfs
# sudo ln -s $HOME/IntelCE-13.232647 /opt/canmore/sdk

Edit your .bashrc and add /opt/canmore/toolchains to the PATH. E.g. by adding:

export PATH=/opt/canmore/toolchains:$PATH

Open a new terminal. You should now be able to test whether everything works by running:

# i686-cm-linux-gcc

The build currently still fails horribly. So maybe we'll have to fix more build errors manually.

We need to prepare some things for the Boxee build:

# cd /opt/canmore/IntelCE/include
# sudo mv config.h config.h.orig

Then create the powervr.ini and platform_config.hcfg files:

# sudo nano /etc/powervr.ini

Fill it with:

DisableHWTextureUpload=1

Then:

# sudo mkdir /etc/platform_config
# sudo mkdir /etc/platform_config/ce4100
# sudo nano /etc/platform_config/ce4100/platform_config.hcfg

Fill it with:

       media_base_address = 0x28000000

Links https://github.com/Boxee/client-3rdparty - Buildchain for all thirdparty binaries on Boxee Box https://build.pub.meego.com/package/show?package=xbmc-gles&project=home%3Aarfoll%3Axbmc-testing - XBMC for Meego (which runs on CE4100 hardware, like the Cocom) http://code.google.com/p/googletv-mirrored-source/source/browse/?repo=v1#hg%2Fintel-sdk - Some other code packages that could help with the issues with the intel sdk?