HOW-TO:Compile Kodi on Fedora/Red Hat/CentOS

This is a tutorial on how to install XBMC on Fedora 8 and higher & CentOS 5.2

(RPM Fusion does provide XBMC binaries for Fedora and CentOS 6.)

Tested versions

 * Fedora 20 + Helix (14.2) (by Dajomas)
 * Fedora 20 + Isengard (15a01) (by Dajomas)
 * Fedora 20 + Isengard (15b01) (by Dajomas)
 * Fedora 21 (Workstation) + Helix (14.2) (by Dajomas)
 * Fedora 21 (Workstation) + Isengard (15a01) (by Dajomas)
 * Fedora 21 (Workstation) + Isengard (15b01) (by Dajomas)
 * I ran these test on initial clean installs of the various Fedora version. Each subsequent build was done on the same (unaltered) install -- Dajomas (talk) 15:55, 21 March 2015 (EDT)

Via git
git clone git://github.com/xbmc/xbmc.git XBMC=xbmc

Via download
wget https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/archive/master.zip unzip master.zip XBMC=xbmc-master

This may download a version you did not intend to download. Check the file version.txt to see if the file you downloaded contains the version you want to build. If this is not the case, please visit https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/releases and download the correct zip file from there. When the downloaded zip file is extracted, assign the newly created directory name to the XBMC variable. For instance, when you download and extract the file https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/archive/14.2rc1-Helix.zip The base directory is xbmc-14.2rc1-Helix so you will assign this directory name to the XBMC variable as follows: XBMC=xbmc-14.2rc1-Helix

Install Packages
Fedora 8-17 sudo rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm sudo rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

Fedora 18-current sudo yum localinstall -y --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

CentOS 5 (32) sudo rpm -Uvh http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

CentOS 5 (64) sudo rpm -Uvh http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm

Cut & Paste Fun

For Fedora 18 and higher:

sudo yum -y install \ afpfs-ng-devel alsa-lib-devel autoconf autogen-libopts \ automake avahi-devel bluez-libs-devel boost-atomic boost-chrono \ boost-context boost-devel boost-filesystem boost-graph boost-iostreams \ boost-locale boost-math boost-program-options boost-python boost-random \ boost-regex boost-serialization boost-signals boost-test boost-timer \ boost-wave bzip2-devel cairo-devel cmake cpp dbus-devel enca-devel \ expat-devel faac-devel faad2-devel faad2-libs flac-devel \ fontconfig-devel freetype-devel fribidi-devel gcc gcc-c++ \ gettext-common-devel gettext-devel git glew-devel glib2-devel \ glibc-devel glibc-headers gl-manpages gnutls-c++ gnutls-devel gperf \ harfbuzz-devel jasper-devel java kernel-headers keyutils-libs-devel \ krb5-devel lame-devel lame-libs libass-devel libbluray-devel \ libcap-devel libcdio-devel libcom_err-devel libcrystalhd-devel libcurl-devel \ libdca-devel libdrm-devel libgcrypt-devel libGLEW libGLEWmx \ libgpg-error-devel libICE-devel libicu-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel \ libmad-devel libmicrohttpd-devel libmikmod libmms-devel \ libmodplug-devel libmp4v2 libmpc libmpeg2-devel libogg-devel \ libplist-devel libpng-devel librtmp-devel \ libsamplerate-devel libselinux-devel libsepol-devel libsmbclient-devel \ libSM-devel libssh-devel libstdc++-devel libtasn1-devel \ libtiff-devel libtool libusb-devel libusbx-devel libva-devel \ libvdpau-devel libverto-devel libvorbis-devel libX11-devel libXau-devel \ libxcb-devel libXdamage-devel libXext-devel libXfixes-devel libXft-devel \ libXi-devel libXinerama-devel libxml2-devel libXmu-devel libXrandr-devel \ libXrender-devel libXScrnSaver-devel libXt-devel libXtst-devel \ libXxf86vm-devel lzma-sdk457 lzo-devel lzo-minilzo m4 mariadb \ mariadb-devel mariadb-libs mesa-libEGL-devel mesa-libGL-devel \ mesa-libGLES-devel mesa-libGLU-devel openssl-devel \ p11-kit-devel pango-devel patch pcre-devel perl-autodie perl-B-Lint \ perl-Business-ISBN perl-Business-ISBN-Data perl-CGI perl-Class-ISA \ perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2 perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib perl-CPAN perl-Data-Dumper \ perl-devel perl-Digest perl-Digest-MD5 perl-Digest-SHA perl-Encode-Locale \ perl-Error perl-ExtUtils-Install perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker \ perl-ExtUtils-Manifest perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS perl-FCGI perl-File-CheckTree \ perl-File-Listing perl-Git perl-HTML-Parser perl-HTML-Tagset \ perl-HTTP-Cookies perl-HTTP-Daemon perl-HTTP-Date perl-HTTP-Message \ perl-HTTP-Negotiate perl-HTTP-Tiny perl-IO-Compress perl-IO-HTML \ perl-IO-Socket-IP perl-IO-Socket-SSL perl-libwww-perl perl-Locale-Codes \ perl-LWP-MediaTypes perl-Module-Pluggable perl-Net-HTTP perl-Net-LibIDN \ perl-Net-SSLeay perl-parent perl-Pod-Checker perl-Pod-LaTeX perl-podlators \ perl-Pod-Parser perl-Pod-Perldoc perl-Pod-Plainer perl-Pod-Usage \ perl-Sys-Syslog perl-TermReadKey perl-Test-Harness perl-Test-Simple \ perl-Text-ParseWords perl-Text-Soundex perl-Text-Unidecode perl-Thread-Queue \ perl-TimeDate perl-URI perl-WWW-RobotRules perl-XML-LibXML \ perl-XML-NamespaceSupport perl-XML-SAX perl-XML-SAX-Base physfs pixman-devel \ python-devel redhat-lsb redhat-lsb-core redhat-lsb-cxx redhat-lsb-desktop \ redhat-lsb-languages redhat-lsb-printing redhat-lsb-submod-multimedia \ redhat-lsb-submod-security SDL2-devel SDL2_image-devel \ SDL-devel SDL_gfx-devel SDL_image-devel SDL_mixer-devel SDL_net-devel \ SDL_Pango-devel SDL_sound-devel SDL-static SDL_ttf-devel \ spax sqlite-devel swig systemtap-sdt-devel taglib-devel \ tinyxml-devel tre-devel vala wavpack-devel xorg-x11-proto-devel \ xz-devel yajl-devel zlib-devel \ libxslt libxslt-devel yasm yasm-devel trousers trousers-devel doxygen

I have noticed that the dependecy checking might give some problems so another way of installing all these RPM's (not as neat but effective) is:

for RPM in  do    sudo yum install -y ${RPM} done

For previous Fedora releases:

sudo yum -y install SDL* glew glew-devel libmad-devel tre tre-devel libogg libogg-devel libvorbis libvorbis-devel boost \ boost-devel bzip2-devel bzip2-libs fribidi* lzo lzo-devel mysql-libs mysql-devel jasper jasper-devel faac faac-devel \ enca enca-devel hal hal-devel hal-libs cmake gperf nasm libXmu-devel fontconfig-devel freetype-devel libXinerama-devel \ pcre-devel gcc-c++ sqlite-devel curl-devel mysql-devel libcdio-devel libmms-devel faad2-devel flac-devel libsmbclient-devel \ libXtst-devel libsamplerate-devel libtiff-devel pulseaudio-libs-devel avahi-devel wavpack-devel libmpeg2-devel libtool \ libmicrohttpd-devel libmodplug-devel redhat-lsb expat-devel gettext-devel python-devel libass-devel bluez-libs-devel \ libssh-devel yajl-devel tinyxml-devel libcap-devel afpfs-ng-devel taglib-devel libplist-devel


 * Added the "libass-devel" package. This package is needed for subtitles.
 * Added the "python-devel taglib-devel libplist-devel" package. This package is essential.
 * Added the "bluez-libs-devel" package to supply libbluetooth
 * Added the "gettext-devel" package. This package is needed for autopoint.

Otherwise you get this error: Can't exec "autopoint": No such file or directory at /usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm line 345. autoreconf: failed to run autopoint: No such file or directory autoreconf: autopoint is needed because this package uses Gettext

If you are wanting to include support for VDPAU or VDAAP you must install the devel packages for these to be included in the compilation process, same goes for bluray support: Packages include sudo yum -y install libvdpau-devel libva-devel libbluray-devel

other development packages that are useful are sudo yum -y install libdca-devel  # for DTS support sudo yum -y install librtmp-devel # for rtmp streaming support sudo yum -y install lame-devel    # for mp3 encoding support using lame

Not sure if it is required but I also install the libraries for good measure.

Build instructions for libnfs to add NFS support: wget https://github.com/downloads/sahlberg/libnfs/libnfs-1.3.0.tar.gz tar -xzf libnfs-1.3.0.tar.gz cd libnfs-1.3.0 ./bootstrap ./configure make sudo make install su -c 'echo /usr/local/lib > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/local-libs.conf' sudo ldconfig cd ..

If you're running CentOS, you need to remove the version of taglib that's available in your repositories and compile the latest version. Follow the steps here.

Build JsonSchemaBuilder
To prevent errors with regards to JsonSchemaBuilder during the building of Kodi, run the following commands from the XBMC/Kodi base directory:

$ make -C tools/depends/native/JsonSchemaBuilder/ $ sudo cp tools/depends/native/JsonSchemaBuilder/bin/JsonSchemaBuilder /usr/local/bin $ sudo chmod 775 /usr/local/bin/JsonSchemaBuilder

Configure
Since there may be a bug in the afp.h file of the afpfs-ng package, you need to fix this before you build the executable. In the bug pages for this, there is a lot of finger pointing going on without a solution appearing so make sure you run the following command before you move on. The command can be run multiple times but will only make the change the first time so if there is no update, the command will not hurt. (The command will create a backup file before changing anything with the extension .BAK)

sudo sed --in-place=.BAK 's#<\(afp_protocol\|libafpclient\).h>##' /usr/include/afpfs-ng/afp.h

Just to appease the configure application, you may have to show it where libmysqlclient is. sudo ln -s /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.??.0.0 /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so

Now we are ready for to build Kodi. First, run the bootstrap command: cd ${XBMC} # XBMC=xbmc when you used git and XBMC=xbmc-master when you downloaded the ZIP file ./bootstrap Are you going to use LIRC and a remote control? Starting with Fedora 12 the default LIRC socket file name has changed to /var/run/lirc/lircd (from /dev/lircd). You might need to provide the configure script with this parameter before compiling XBMC:

./configure --with-lirc-device=/var/run/lirc/lircd If not, simply do ./configure Or if you want to have XBMC/Kodi installed in an alternative directory (e.g. /opt/kodi) use ./configure --prefix=/opt/kodi There are a lot more options available for the configure script. To see all of them use ./configure --help With the above installed packages this should go smoothly :)

Build
make

If you recieve a compile error on Fedora 16 and higher or CentOS related to afp.h, please see the related bug ticket for a fix. On CentOS 6, afp.h is located at /usr/include/afpfs-ng/afp.h.

If XBMC fails to build for some other reason, don't worry! It may just be a temporary problem. Because people are adding new code to XBMC's master branch all the time, an update may have broken something. Read the information under "How do I obtain useful compiler output?" in this XBMC forum post to learn more about what to do in this situation.

Install
sudo make install

When this completes you are done!

For Fedora 10-12, SELinux will prevent loading of some .so files due to potential security problems. To allow the loading of these files (thats what you probably want), simply open a terminal and as sudo (or as root) execute the following commands: sudo chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/usr/local/share/xbmc/system/players/dvdplayer/avutil-50-i486-linux.so' sudo chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/usr/local/share/xbmc/system/players/dvdplayer/avcodec-52-i486-linux.so' sudo chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/usr/local/share/xbmc/system/players/dvdplayer/avformat-52-i486-linux.so' sudo chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/usr/local/share/xbmc/system/players/dvdplayer/swscale-0.6.1-i486-linux.so'

In Fedora 14 i found after compilation that xbmc was failing to run. The logs suggested that xbmc could not find libmicrohttpd.so.5 this was true as there had been a recent update to this library. XBMC should really link to libmicrohttpd.so rather than so.5 but until then a symlink does the trick

sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libmicrohttpd.so /usr/lib64/libmicrohttpd.so.5 or replace lib64 with lib for 32 bit systems

Simply log into Gnome (or KDE) and open up a terminal and type 'xbmc' and it will load.

Fedora Kickstart File
!!! WARNING !!! This section is outdated and will try to install XBMC 9.11 from SVN on Fedora 12

Here is the kickstart file created by Cookieboy that was used to create the Fedora 12 buildslave. You can use this to do a full install with all the required packages to build XBMC from Source. This kickstart file will grab the packages from the Internet. You can modify the kickstart file to grab all the packages it can from the CDROM install and then the Net for the other packages if you would like. Cookieboy created the file with a local fedora repo rsynced down on a local network. This file has been modified to download from the public Internet.

After this kickstart file is used, in the /source folder you will find two scripts. One will download the latest CrystalHD header files to compile against, as well as a simple script to download xbmc trunk to the /source folder. Run those if you wish, and you can edit them to suit your needs. The other thing this file does, is turn on yum-updatesd and has it run every 24 hours to download any system updates so that they can be installed quickly.

To learn more about Kickstart files, visit the link here.


 * 1) Kickstart file created by Cookieboy ###
 * 2) Created Jan 25th 2010               ###
 * 1) Created Jan 25th 2010               ###

install url --url http://mirrors.xmission.com/fedora/releases/12/Fedora/i386/os/ lang en_US.UTF-8 keyboard us

network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp
 * 1) Network - DHCP


 * 1) Network - Static
 * 2) network --bootproto=static --ip=10.0.5.25 --netmask=255.255.255.0 --gateway=10.0.5.1 --nameserver=10.0.5.1 --hostname=myxbmc.mylocal.net


 * 1) rootpw rootpasshere

firewall --disabled authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5 selinux --disabled timezone America/Denver bootloader --location=mbr


 * 1) REQUIRED REPOS FOR THE YUM PACKAGES BELOW ###
 * 1) REQUIRED REPOS FOR THE YUM PACKAGES BELOW ###

repo --name=Fedora-Everything --mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-12&arch=i386 repo --name=Fedora-Updates --mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released-f12&arch=i386 repo --name=RPMFusion-Free --mirrorlist=http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/12/i386 repo --name=RPMFusion-Free-Updates --mirrorlist=http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/updates/12/i386 repo --name=RPMFusion-NonFree --mirrorlist=http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/12/i386 repo --name=RPMFusion-NonFree-Updates --mirrorlist=http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/updates/12/i386


 * 1) ADD THE XBMC USER ###
 * 1) ADD THE XBMC USER ###

user --name=xbmcuser --password=xbmcuserpass

services --disabled=acpid,anacron,atd,bluetooth,cups,firstboot,ip6tables,iptables,mdmonitor,sendmail --enable=yum-updatesd


 * 1) HARDDRIVE PARTITIONS ###
 * 1) HARDDRIVE PARTITIONS ###


 * 1)  Uncomment the lines below to auto format your HD...
 * 2) clearpart --all --drives=sda
 * 3) part /boot --fstype ext4 --size=200
 * 4) part swap --size=1024
 * 5) part / --fstype ext4 --size=100 --grow


 * 1) Yum Packages ###
 * 1) Yum Packages ###

%packages

@base @base-x @development-tools @xfce-desktop kernel-devel kernel-headers yum-updatesd subversion git gcc-c++ boost-devel mesa-libGL-devel glew-devel libmad-devel libjpeg-devel libsamplerate-devel libogg-devel libvorbis-devel freetype-devel fontconfig-devel bzip2-devel fribidi-devel sqlite-devel mysql-devel libpng-devel pcre-devel lzo-devel libcdio-devel libsmbclient-devel SDL-devel SDL_image-devel SDL_mixer-devel enca-devel jasper-devel libmms-devel libXt-devel libXtst-devel libXmu-devel libXinerama-devel libcurl-devel dbus-devel hal-devel pulseaudio-libs-devel pulseaudio-libs-zeroconf faac-devel avahi-devel ffmpeg-devel a52dec-devel libdca-devel faad2-devel mpeg2dec-devel libass-devel libmpcdec-devel flac-devel wavpack-devel python-devel cmake gperf unzip make libtool flex bison libtiff-devel libvdpau nasm libvdpau-devel lirc lirc-devel e2fsprogs-devel libdvdread-devel tre-devel libdvdread tre libmodplug-devel libmodplug libmicrohttpd libmicrohttpd-devel
 * 1) Added Feb 16 2010
 * 1) Added Feb 21 2010

%end

reboot

%post


 * 1) XFCE: create /etc/sysconfig/desktop (needed for installation) ###
 * 1) XFCE: create /etc/sysconfig/desktop (needed for installation) ###

cat > /etc/sysconfig/desktop <> /etc/gdm/custom.conf < /home/xbmcuser/.Xclients chmod a+x /home/xbmcuser/.Xclients chown xbmcuser:xbmcuser /home/xbmcuser/.Xclients


 * 1) make XBMC dep scripts ###
 * 1) make XBMC dep scripts ###

OUTFILE=/source/setup-xbmc-crystalhd.sh ( cat <<'EOF'
 * 1) !/bin/sh
 * 2) This script will SVN Export the needed libraries to compile crystalHD in XBMC

mkdir -p /usr/local/include/libcrystalhd svn export --force https://xbmc.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/xbmc/trunk/lib/libcrystalhd/ /usr/local/include/libcrystalhd/ EOF ) > $OUTFILE
 * 1) Create folders and export CrystalHD Headers

if [ -f "$OUTFILE" ] then chmod +x $OUTFILE # Make the generated file executable. else echo "Problem in creating file: \"$OUTFILE\"" fi

OUTFILE=/source/setup-xbmc-trunk.sh ( cat <<'EOF'
 * 1) !/bin/sh
 * 2) Check out SVN Trunk to /source/xbmc

svn co https://xbmc.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/xbmc/trunk/ /source/xbmc/ EOF ) > $OUTFILE

if [ -f "$OUTFILE" ] then chmod +x $OUTFILE # Make the generated file executable. else echo "Problem in creating file: \"$OUTFILE\"" fi

OUTFILE=


 * 1) Modify yum-updated to auto download any updates every 24 hours ###
 * 1) Modify yum-updated to auto download any updates every 24 hours ###

sed -i -e 's/run_interval \= 3600/run_interval \= 86400/' /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf sed -i -e 's/emit_via \= dbus/emit_via \= syslog/' /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf sed -i -e 's/do_update \= no/do_update \= no/' /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf sed -i -e 's/do_download \= no/do_download \= yes/' /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf sed -i -e 's/do_download_deps \= no/do_download_deps \= yes/' /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf

%end