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Dave Chapman 427fff4320 Add -rfb option for reading the main firmware (OSOS image) as a binary file.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.rockbox.org/rockbox/trunk@13148 a1c6a512-1295-4272-9138-f99709370657
2007-04-13 23:28:20 +00:00
apps Build libmad separately for mpegplayer. This provides flexibility to adjust things like IRAM usage independently - use #ifdef MPEGPLAYER in libmad to make any mpegplayer specific changes. 2007-04-13 23:05:42 +00:00
bootloader Non-functional change - use the firmware __backlight_on() function instead of writing directly to the ports to turn the backlight on 2007-04-12 17:58:02 +00:00
docs Ooops. Forgot to add Philippe Latulippe to the credits file. 2007-04-10 20:02:30 +00:00
firmware Hrmph. Forgot the other instance of cache hacking. 2007-04-13 21:25:07 +00:00
flash Now charcell displays require lcd_update() for updating the main lcd content like bitmap displays. 2007-04-06 22:55:00 +00:00
fonts commit fs#5982 by Alexander Levin: 'Some changes to nimbus-12 and nimbus-14 that make [a few cyrillic] glyphs more consistent within the font' 2007-03-04 20:37:50 +00:00
gdb Adapted more Makefiles to the more efficient info printing. 2006-10-30 01:40:20 +00:00
manual Remove the crossfeed WPS tag from the manual. 2007-04-13 12:05:21 +00:00
rbutil Add -rfb option for reading the main firmware (OSOS image) as a binary file. 2007-04-13 23:28:20 +00:00
tools Switch to mi4 format for Rockbox binary on H10 and Sansa. This means we now only have one binary format to deal with on this target. Users with bootloaders older than 20 March 2007 will have to update. Up to date ones are already on download.rockbox.org since that date. 2007-04-12 21:07:35 +00:00
uisimulator Fix sim crashes on long filenames. Patch by Sean Morrisey with some minor changes by me. Fixes FS #6009 2007-04-12 22:38:54 +00:00
wps FS#7020. Make the behaviour of '#' more consistent. It now requires escaping by a '%' to be displayed. If it is not escaped, the following text will be interpreted as a comment (including the newline character). 2007-04-13 11:43:10 +00:00

               __________               __   ___.
     Open      \______   \ ____   ____ |  | _\_ |__   _______  ___
     Source     |       _//  _ \_/ ___\|  |/ /| __ \ /  _ \  \/  /
     Jukebox    |    |   (  <_> )  \___|    < | \_\ (  <_> > <  <
     Firmware   |____|_  /\____/ \___  >__|_ \|___  /\____/__/\_ \
                       \/            \/     \/    \/            \/

Build Your Own Rockbox

1. Check out 'rockbox' from SVN (or extract a downloaded archive).

   $ svn co svn://svn.rockbox.org/rockbox/trunk rockbox

     or

   $ tar xjf rockbox.tar.bz2

2. Create a build directory, preferably in the same directory as the firmware/
   and apps/ directories. This is where all generated files will be written.

   $ cd rockbox
   $ mkdir build
   $ cd build

3. Make sure you have sh/arm/m68k-elf-gcc and siblings in the PATH. Make sure
   that you have 'perl' in your PATH too. Your gcc cross compiler needs to be
   a particular version depending on what player you are compiling for. These
   can be acquired with the rockboxdev.sh script in the /tools/ folder of the
   source, or will have been included if you've installed one of the
   toolchains or development environments provided at http://www.rockbox.org/

   $ which sh-elf-gcc
   $ which perl

4. In your build directory, run the 'tools/configure' script and enter what
   target you want to build for and if you want a debug version or not (and a
   few more questions). It'll prompt you. The debug version is for making a
   gdb version out of it. It is only useful if you run gdb towards your target
   Archos.

   $ ../tools/configure

5. *ploink*. Now you have got a Makefile generated for you.

6. Run 'make' and soon the necessary pieces from the firmware and the apps
   directories have been compiled, linked and scrambled for you.

   $ make
   $ make zip

7. unzip the rockbox.zip on your music player, reboot it and
   *smile*.

Whenever the tools/configure script gets updated, you can make your makefile
updated too by running 'tools/configure update'.

If you want to build for more than one target, just create several build
directories and create a setup for each target:

   $ mkdir build-fmrecorder
   $ cd build-fmrecorder
   $ ../tools/configure

   $ mkdir build-player
   $ cd build-player
   $ ../tools/configure

Questions anyone? Ask on the mailing list. We'll be happy to help you!