Update repo to Kodi 18.0 final

[nextgen-networks]

It would be fantastic to have a new branch with the Kodi 18.0 final released today:
https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-180

Thanks for your hard work!

[garbear]

Will do within the next week!

[garbear]

I've rebased the branch on the 18.0 release: https://github.com/garbear/kodi-steamlink/commits/steamlink-18

[ToasterDEV]

Hi there.

Tried to compile the new branch on a Lubuntu 18 system, but no steamlink folder came out. Is there any special flags needed to change target?

[nextgen-networks]

Jipp I set up an docker build environment and successfully compiled for ubuntu - but how to compile for steam-box?
Would be great to have updated instructions on how to build for steam-box in docs.

[garbear]

Kodi for Steam Link needs to be built with the Steam Link SDK. I'll try to update the Leia branch later today.

[garbear]

Updated: https://github.com/garbear/steamlink-sdk/tree/kodi-18. I'm running a test compile now

[nextgen-networks]

@garbear Thanks for your ongiong work to port kodi! 👍
I also set up a new environment with the kodi-18 branch and tried to build.
I got an error that leads me to the assumption that the build script needs some config polishing because it tries to build aclocal for x86_64-linux-native:

make -C x86_64-linux-native make[2]: Entering directory '/data/steamlink-sdk/examples/kodi/kodi-src/tools/depends/native/m4-native/x86_64-linux-native' CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && /data/steamlink-sdk/kodi-deps/x86_64-linux-gnu-native/bin/aclocal -I m4 /bin/bash: /data/steamlink-sdk/kodi-deps/x86_64-linux-gnu-native/bin/aclocal: No such file or directory Makefile:1562: recipe for target 'aclocal.m4' failed make[2]: *** [aclocal.m4] Error 127 make[2]: Leaving directory '/data/steamlink-sdk/examples/kodi/kodi-src/tools/depends/native/m4-native/x86_64-linux-native' Makefile:30: recipe for target 'x86_64-linux-native/src/m4' failed make[1]: *** [x86_64-linux-native/src/m4] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory '/data/steamlink-sdk/examples/kodi/kodi-src/tools/depends/native/m4-native' Makefile:64: recipe for target 'm4-native' failed make: *** [m4-native] Error 2 make: Leaving directory '/data/steamlink-sdk/examples/kodi/kodi-src/tools/depends/native' root@e1a837601156:/data/steamlink-sdk/examples/kodi# autoconf. autoconf: error: no input file bash: .: filename argument required .: usage: . filename [arguments] root@e1a837601156:/data/steamlink-sdk/examples/kodi# autoconf autoconf: error: no input file root@e1a837601156:/data/steamlink-sdk/examples/kodi#

[garbear]

That's by design. Kodi builds a toolchain of around 20 native programs before building the remaining depends and the main app.

[nextgen-networks]

Ah OK. Then wen have it to be build.

Any idea how to solve that not found "aclocal"? :-)

[garbear]

Did you try sudo apt-get install automake autopoint build-essential cmake curl default-jre doxygen gawk git gperf libcurl4-openssl-dev libtool swig unzip zip zlib1g-dev wget pkg-config python?

[nextgen-networks]

Checked the packages you posted and seems they are in place:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
automake is already the newest version (1:1.15.1-3ubuntu2).
build-essential is already the newest version (12.4ubuntu1).
cmake is already the newest version (3.10.2-1ubuntu2).
default-jre is already the newest version (2:1.10-63ubuntu102).
doxygen is already the newest version (1.8.13-10).
gawk is already the newest version (1:4.1.4+dfsg-1build1).
libtool is already the newest version (2.4.6-2).
pkg-config is already the newest version (0.29.1-0ubuntu2).
python is already the newest version (2.7.15rc1-1).
unzip is already the newest version (6.0-21ubuntu1).
zip is already the newest version (3.0-11build1).
zlib1g-dev is already the newest version (1:1.2.11.dfsg-0ubuntu2).
gperf is already the newest version (3.1-1).
swig is already the newest version (3.0.12-1).
autopoint is already the newest version (0.19.8.1-6ubuntu0.1).
curl is already the newest version (7.58.0-2ubuntu3.5).
git is already the newest version (1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.4).
libcurl4-openssl-dev is already the newest version (7.58.0-2ubuntu3.5).
wget is already the newest version (1.19.4-1ubuntu2.1).
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libc++-7-helpers liblldb-7-dev
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

[garbear]

Maybe a dirty build directory? Can you try building from scratch?

[nextgen-networks]

... jepp I can do a cleanup.
But had build an configured this docker container some hours before. This was also the first build attempt with fresh downloaded sources.

[nextgen-networks]

Here are the commands to reproduce the build enviromnent:

docker run --name nextgen-gcc01 --rm -i -t -v REPLACEthisWITHyourDRV:/data cjdb/amcpp-stdlib

apt-get update && apt install mc sudo automake autopoint build-essential cmake curl default-jre doxygen gawk git gperf libcurl4-openssl-dev libtool swig unzip zip zlib1g-dev wget pkg-config python -y && apt-get upgrade -y && apt-get dist-upgrade -y && apt autoremove

cd /data

git clone -b "kodi-18" https://github.com/garbear/steamlink-sdk.git

REPLACEthisWITHyourDRV = your drive/folder you may map your build-env to

[garbear]

Can you post your Dockerfile? I'll try running it and see if I can repro

[nextgen-networks]

Sorry publich dockerfile was not posted by maintainer :-/
-> https://hub.docker.com/r/cjdb/amcpp-stdlib

... but i found his github ;-)
https://github.com/cjdb/docker

[garbear]

I can't reproduce your error. Is it possible to reproduce on a clean installation of Ubuntu 18.04 with the above packages installed?

[nextgen-networks]

OK i'll do a clean ubuntu install and send you a feedback.

Is it possible that you publish a "test" or final package of your build in meantime?

Thanks for your support!

[nextgen-networks]

@garbear ... build is still running :-)
I don't got the file/folder not found error in the early build stage.
Now building with named volume within docker.

Assumption:
Docker/Docker file filter driver has problems with mapped drives/folders on Windows Server 2016 host. Maybe file/folder name length. Maybe some character issue.

[nextgen-networks]

@garbear building took ages - and did not finish successfully :-/

Here is the output i get when i try to build:
make -C armv7a-cros-linux-gnueabi-release
make[2]: Entering directory '/data/steamlink-sdk/examples/kodi/kodi-src/tools/depends/target/libxkbcommon/armv7a-cros-linux-gnueabi-release'
YACC src/xkbcomp/parser.c
./build-aux/ylwrap: line 176: yacc: command not found
Makefile:1637: recipe for target 'src/xkbcomp/parser.c' failed
make[2]: *** [src/xkbcomp/parser.c] Error 127
make[2]: Leaving directory '/data/steamlink-sdk/examples/kodi/kodi-src/tools/depends/target/libxkbcommon/armv7a-cros-linux-gnueabi-release'
Makefile:26: recipe for target 'armv7a-cros-linux-gnueabi-release/.libs/libxkbcommon.la' failed
make[1]: *** [armv7a-cros-linux-gnueabi-release/.libs/libxkbcommon.la] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/data/steamlink-sdk/examples/kodi/kodi-src/tools/depends/target/libxkbcommon'
Makefile:129: recipe for target 'libxkbcommon' failed
make: *** [libxkbcommon] Error 2
make: Leaving directory '/data/steamlink-sdk/examples/kodi/kodi-src/tools/depends/target'

Did you had any success in building and like to publish your result?

[WildPenquin]

FWIW I can build this on my Arch system. Too tired to test if it actually works or if it is usable today, though.

I noticed the build system is not quite error resistant - for example, if a file is not downloaded correctly, it will error out with an obscure error message (of course one good hint is that is fails while extracting a file). I needed to reset the directory many times, since the script seems to be not able to always pick on from a point of failure. Also, there are some issues if building in a non-english (?) locale. I needed to set LANG=C.

nextgen-networks: There is a clear message in your output, it does not find yacc. On Arch, it is a part of bison (The GNU general-purpose parser generator). I had it installed, although it is not mentioned in the dependencies (which might be distro specific ... perhaps bison is puled in on others, while not on others).

EDIT: noticed bison is pulled in by build-essentials being in group base-devel on Arch; seems like quite a generic / important thing, surprising it is not pulled in on your system. Are you sure you have installed everything listed in requirements and garbear here?

[nextgen-networks]

@WildPenquin Thanks for your hint!
deleted the build folder a couple of minutes before your post ;-)

Installed bison (apt-get install bison -y) now and running the build script again...
... keeping fingers crossed and will report back here with results.

... and jipp i'm absolutely sure all components/packages mentioned by @garbear have been installed before.

[garbear]

The build succeeded on my ubuntu 18.04 install. It took 90 minutes on my work machine, but that's compiling on 20 HT cores. Here's the result:

https://github.com/garbear/kodi-steamlink/releases/tag/v18.0-2019-02-08

I haven't tested on Steam Link hardware since beta 3. Performance had drastically decreased from 17.6, but it's possible that xbmc/xbmc#15286 has improved performance since then.

[nextgen-networks]

@garbear I was also successful in compiling Kodi.
Installed your version and mine also - unfortunately tv-playback is nut usable anymore :-/
Sound is played but video is degraded to a still image of the first received full frame.

The latest Krypton stable did not face those problems.
Seems Kodi needs heavy fine tuning to gain a usable mode on the elderly marvel steamlink ...

[garbear]

Unfortunately this seems to be the case. Leia is just more cpu-intensive than Krypton.

[moodja]

wonderful work! :) I am impatient to give it a try...
just a noob question : how do you use it without mouse or keyboard...?