Compiling on FC8 from boxee-0.9.5.4497-source

**misterjamin** · December 4th, 2008, 12:00 PM

Hey,

So I downloaded the latest tarball and have been trying to get it to compile on fc8 (i386) having compiled the previous version (boxee-source-0.9.3921).

I've already fixed one gcc issue (removed class name from method RunInBG on xbmc/AppManager.h on line 65), but now build is failing elsewhere:

Code:

make -C xbmc/linux
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mythtv/boxee-0.9.5.4497-source/xbmc/linux'
/usr/bin/ccache g++ -MD -c -fPIC  -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 -DTIXML_USE_STL  -DHAS_SDL_JOYSTICK -DHAS_XRANDR -DHAS_PCRE -D'SVN_REV="exported"' -DINSTALL_PATH="\"/home/mythtv/boxee-0.9.5.4497-source\""  -DDLL_PATH_LIBCURL="\"/usr/lib/libcurl.so.4\"" -I. -I/usr/include/SDL -I.. -I../../guilib -I../utils -I../FileSystem   LinuxFileSystem.cpp -o LinuxFileSystem.o
LinuxFileSystem.cpp: In static member function ‘static void CLinuxFileSystem::GetRemovableDrives(VECSOURCES&)’:
LinuxFileSystem.cpp:188: error: ‘class std::vector<CMediaSource, std::allocator<CMediaSource> >’ has no member named ‘strName’
make[1]: *** [LinuxFileSystem.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mythtv/boxee-0.9.5.4497-source/xbmc/linux'
make: *** [linux] Error 2

...which is weird, because I can see that line 50 of xbmc/MediaSource.h has "CStdString strName;" defined?

I'm definitely not a C++ Developer, but I have a good understanding of programming languages, so I thought I'd take a pop at fixing it myself, does anyone have any pointers?

Thanks,

MrJ

**jdarnold** · December 4th, 2008, 01:26 PM

Don't know why you are having these compile problems, as it compiled "out of the box" for me on openSUSE. I would venture a guess if you are having problems compiling it, you're in for some tough sledding getting it to run. You can check my notes here:

http://linux.amazingdev.com/blog/archives/000918.html

for more help. But I would just wait a couple days and hope that the next version of Boxee has better support for non-Ubuntu distros.

**mandelcat** · December 4th, 2008, 07:52 PM

I had an error compiling boxee from source:

Code:

AppManager.h:52: error: extra qualification ‘CAppManager::’ on member ‘RunInBG’

I then played with the offending header file for a bit, recompiled, and received the same error that misterjamin received.

I'm running Debian Testing

**nndegz** · December 4th, 2008, 08:14 PM

I was able to get past the error by changing line 188 to share.strName (was shares.strName)

Code:

share.strName += " (" + g_localizeStrings.Get(51350) + ")"

**jaydonoghue** · December 4th, 2008, 09:25 PM

Thanks nndegz

I had to make some more code changes for the compilation to continue:

1) xbmc/lib/libBoxee/Makefile/tinyxpath line 57

Code:

     DEFAULT_INCLUDES = -I. -I../../../../guilib/tinyXML

2) The source code was missing a required binary - xbmc/lib/libBoxee/libtxml.a, so I copied it from an older version of the source code.

3) Copy the make_debian.sh script from jdarnold's site (linked above) and execute. Got a bunch of errors (no plugins directory for example), but havent figured out if that matters yet.

**jdarnold** · December 4th, 2008, 10:08 PM

Okay, I got it to compile and wrote up my notes here:

http://linux.amazingdev.com/blog/archives/000923.html

Yeah, not sure what the story is with libtxml.a, but I just grabbed the tinyxml source code and rebuilt it.

But even once I got it built and sort of installed, it was very unstable. I finally got logged in but as soon as I tried to do much it froze up solid. And I can't find a log file any where any more.

**jaydonoghue** · December 4th, 2008, 10:19 PM

Check /boxee.log to see if that exists.. thats where my log files have always gone.

First,on the plus side.. locally stored videos are playing, and the navigation seems quicker.

Now a few negative things:
I've noticed my library is messed up (TV shows gone missing, things reported double), but I'll erase the library and run overnight to see what happens.

Hulu doesnt do much (it never really worked before.. always hung up and was very slow). This time when I go to watch a show, it just does the spinning icon and I cant get out of it. Had to kill the process.

Still cant view mythtv recordings

**jdarnold** · December 5th, 2008, 09:08 AM

Ahh, you're right. I see ~/boxee.log - odd, as it always used to go into /tmp/boxee-username.log. But no hints as to why it is crashing.

BTW, this is on my openSUSE box. The compilation errors make me think that there is no way this is the final version for Linux. Esp. the 2 mentioned here in this thread, as this would have never compiled. The libtxml is probably just some set up issue. But the share vs. shares one makes me think that maybe they don't compile it for HAL, as it is in an #ifdef that only gets used if you are using HAL, which may only be a KDE thing, not something done with GNOME? Grasping at straws here. But the previous version, built from source, worked far better than this one. I suppose I could try debugging it. Yech.

**nndegz** · December 5th, 2008, 08:52 PM

Mine seems to be working now. While trying to figure out the Hulu issue I saw this error

Code:

21:47:45 T:2920274832 M: 60289024 WARNING: Unable to resolve: /boxee/system/players/flashplayer/FlashLib-i486-linux.so FlashBigStep, reason: /boxee/system/players/flashplayer/FlashLib-i486-linux.so: undefined symbol: FlashBigStep
21:47:45 T:2920274832 M: 60289024   ERROR: Unable to resolve exports from dll /boxee/system/players/flashplayer/FlashLib-i486-linux.so

Anyone had any luck getting hulu to work?

**agentlame** · December 6th, 2008, 01:29 AM

i compiled for 8.10, yesterday... everything worked as expected, save flash site.

it looks like bxflplayer-linux is missing methods. my guess is that is the hold up.