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Dominik Riebeling e90d53cea8 Rockbox Utility: add build id to version string.
The purpose of this is to allow versioning of builds. This is useful when a new
build is made to fix problems with the build itself that haven't been noticed
earlier (like the accessibility issue reported as FS#12089) as it will avoid
false positives for the update check.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.rockbox.org/rockbox/trunk@29824 a1c6a512-1295-4272-9138-f99709370657
2011-05-04 22:18:34 +00:00
android Use mkdir -p in the previous commit. Thanks sideral for spotting. 2011-04-21 09:35:35 +00:00
apps Avoid false warnings of full dirs when the number of visible entries in a dir equals the limit. 2011-05-04 18:33:12 +00:00
backdrops Add missing cabbiev2 800x480 backdrop 2011-02-19 01:45:08 +00:00
bootloader Sansa Fuze+: initial commit (bootloader only, LCD basically working) 2011-05-01 13:02:46 +00:00
debian Update maemo build changelog 2011-04-16 21:02:49 +00:00
docs Commit FS#12096 by Stephan Grossklass. Increases the maximum ID3v2 field length to 240 bytes on large memory targets, and 90 bytes on low memory targets. Total bytes for all tags combined remains unchanged. 2011-05-04 17:29:53 +00:00
firmware fuze+: move defines from .c to .h; implement button reading for volume up/down and power 2011-05-04 18:00:22 +00:00
flash Move memset6() declaration to string-extra.h, kills a warning compiling for android since it ships a memory.h. 2010-08-12 13:55:01 +00:00
fonts Fix the eogonek glyph in 14-Nimbus (the credit goes to the author of FS#11785) 2010-12-11 21:05:20 +00:00
gdb Generate C file / header for svn version string 2010-05-27 09:41:46 +00:00
icons Revert hotkey bitmaps 2010-05-07 14:46:42 +00:00
lib Fix further 'variable set but not used' warnings reported from GCC 4.6.0. 2011-05-01 13:48:28 +00:00
manual Correct manual: rockbox support APEv2 metadata tags. 2011-05-01 20:17:43 +00:00
packaging Update pandora packaging file 2011-04-20 20:02:45 +00:00
rbutil Rockbox Utility: add build id to version string. 2011-05-04 22:18:34 +00:00
tools Sansa Fuze+: initial commit (bootloader only, LCD basically working) 2011-05-01 13:02:46 +00:00
uisimulator Fix regression in r29715: files listed multiple times in uisimulator 2011-04-16 13:06:18 +00:00
utils sbtools: generate a unique name for each section 2011-05-02 22:52:52 +00:00
wps Touchscreen WPS changes: 2011-02-25 20:14:56 +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*.

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!