Compiling on Fedora 9

I've been having some limited success compiling XBMC on Fedora 9. To help any one else trying this, here is what I have had to do.

Install Fedora with full dev tools, then install the following packages.


Create this sym link:

I also had to edit the following file from the latest svn (latest as of 40 minutes ago)
XBMC/xbmc/utils/CharsetConverter.h
from
to

So far, so good after all that. Hope that helps other Fedora users.

libfribidi leaves something to be desired. Had to edit the following to keep the compile going:

XBMC/xbmc/utils/ArabicShaping.h

Same as above.

You should really edit the makefile for that directory with -Ifribidi and -Ilib/libfribidi on the INCLUDES line rather than changing the pathes in the source. NOTE: [dash][capital i]

althekiller Wrote:You should really edit the makefile for that directory with -Ifribidi and -Ilib/libfribidi on the INCLUDES line rather than changing the pathes in the source. NOTE: [dash][capital i]

Didn't know that, thanks.

Hello, I haven't read any C program for the past decade so I'm kind of "messing around" with this one. I'm actually trying to compile XMBC on Fedora 9 and I'm struggling with the same problems.

My experience on C is so old that we can say it's null but anyway, I don't give up. I did what you wrote down here and I managed to ./configure

Of course I faced the same issue described above with XBMC/xbmc/utils/CharsetConverter.h and the other one. I read the message from AlTheKiller but I don't know how to sort this out so I changed the two .h files with vi. I knopw this is not correct but well... I told you I was not good at C.
So here I am, I modified the two .h files and did make.

Here comes a new issue with xbmc/utils/RegExp.h "pcre.h: No such file or directory" at the very beginning of the make process. So i vi-ed /xbmc/utils/CharsetConverter.h:

from
namespace PCRE {
#ifdef _WIN32
#define PCRE_STATIC
#include "lib/libpcre/pcre.h"
#elif defined (__APPLE__)
#include "lib/libpcre/pcre.h"
#else
#include <pcre.h>
#endif

to
namespace PCRE {
#ifdef _WIN32
#define PCRE_STATIC
#include "lib/libpcre/pcre.h"
#elif defined (__APPLE__)
#include "lib/libpcre/pcre.h"
#else
/*#include <pcre.h>*/
#include "lib/libpcre/pcre.h"
#endif

And I got further, it's still on the make process, but I just wanted to show you the progress with Fedora as I can't find anyone compiling this on Fedora. I'm glad I found that post :-)

Just in case, I did a checkout 1 hour ago and it was the first one I did.
The purpose of my post is not to fix the issues as I'm not capable of doing this, it's more like I want to point out the issues I have on Fedora. I understand you cannot check the compile process on Ubuntu, Suse, Debian, Fedora... so it might be good to have people telling the community how it is on several distros.

PS: While I was writing this, the make process eventualy finished in error:
/usr/bin/ccache g++ -MD -c -g -D_DEBUG -Wall -DDBUS_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib/dbus-1.0/include -I/usr/include/hal -I/usr/include/lzo -D_LINUX -D_FILE_DEFINED -D_REENTRANT -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DHAS_SDL_JOYSTICK -DHAS_XRANDR -D'SVN_REV="14729"' -DINSTALL_PATH="\"/usr/local/share/xbmc\"" -I. -I.. -I../linux -I../../guilib RegExp.cpp -o RegExp.o
RegExp.cpp:30:18: error: pcre.h: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [RegExp.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/Ludo/XBMC/xbmc/utils'
make: *** [utils] Error 2


It took about 6 minutes to accomplish this on my E8300, I'm running Fedora 9, 2.6.25.11-97.fc9.i686
I'll put back the source files to what it was, go to sleep and then we'll see.
I hope my 2 cents were useful in any way, but I have a doubt.

Cheers

So I did a new ./configure and then make -j2 that finally worked.
However while running make install as root, I still had the same error with pcre.h so I vi-ed xbmc/utils/RegExp.cpp and did the same change I mentioned above. And then I make install as root user.

And 5 minutes later...
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/ts1enc.dfu))) (./doxygen.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/tools/calc.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/tools/array.sty))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def))
Writing index file refman.idx
No file refman.aux.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/ts1cmr.fd) [1] [2]
No file refman.toc.
[1] [2]
Chapter 1.
(./index.tex

LaTeX Warning: Reference `dvdcss_8h' on page 1 undefined on input line 5.

(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1cmtt.fd) [1]) [2]
Chapter 2.
(./files.tex

LaTeX Warning: Reference `dvdcss_8h' on page 3 undefined on input line 3.

) [3] [4]
Chapter 3.
(./dvdcss_8h.tex [5]

! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:�ph not set up for use with LaTeX.

See the inputenc package documentation for explanation.
Type H <return> for immediate help.
...

l.49 \item[Author:]St�ph
ane Borel $<${\tt stef@via.ecp.fr}$>$

Now I'm going to sleep, as it is 1 o'clock in the morning here.

Bye

Just in case you haven't figured this out, I thought I would help:

Edit: XBMC/xbmc/cores/dvdplayer/Codecs/libDVDCSS/doc/latex/dvdcss_8h.tex

Line 49

There is a faulty character in there, remove the 'e' (with the forward tick over it) and replace with a normal 'e'

libdvdcss compiles just fine after that.

Hope that helps someone!

This is how you can compile xbmc on fedora 9:

I have checked out svn code, and created link
su
ln -s /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.15.0.0 /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so
exit

edited these two files as instucted:
xbmc/utils/CharsetConverter.h
xbmc/utils/ArabicShaping.h

and

then you need to copy jpegint.h file

su
cp xbmc/lib/cximage-6.0/jpeg/jpegint.h /usr/include/
exit

and now you can finally do

./configure
make
su
make install