MythTV PVR/BuildFromSource
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- The addon is part of XBMC's official addon repository: https://github.com/opdenkamp/xbmc-pvr-addons
- The addon's development repository is https://github.com/fetzerch/xbmc-pvr-addons. You will also find the addon's issue tracker here.
Branches
XBMC PVR addons like the MythTV addon are not compatible with all versions of XBMC (due to the PVR API version dependency). The addon repositories have different branches for the different XBMC versions.
- Branch master: Compatible with XBMC pre-Gotham (v13) development builds
- Branch frodo: Compatible with XBMC Frodo (v12)
Use git checkout <BRANCH>
after cloning the repository to switch to the according branch before starting the build.
Build MythTV addon on Ubuntu
- Add repository for XBMC nightly builds
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/unstable sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade
- Install XBMC from nightly builds
sudo apt-get install xbmc
- Install build utilities/libraries
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras autoconf git sudo apt-get install build-essential automake checkinstall sudo apt-get install autoconf automake bison flex libtool intltool zip sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev libboost-filesystem-dev
- Create zip file for XBMC MythTV addon
mkdir source cd source git clone git://github.com/fetzerch/xbmc-pvr-addons.git cd xbmc-pvr-addons ./bootstrap ./configure --enable-addons-with-dependencies make clean zip
- Put the addon in a handy location
cp addons/pvr.mythtv.cmyth-linux-x86_64.zip $HOME
- Start XBMC, add the addon using the zip file, then finally enable Live TV using the MythTV addon above.
Build MythTV addon on OSX
- Install Xcode for your Mac. Go to http://connect.apple.com/
- Snow leopard: Xcode 3.2.6
- Lion: Xcode 4.3
- Mountain Lion: Xcode 4.4
- Install macports. Go to http://http://www.macports.org/install.php
- Prefer Mac OS X Package (.pkg) installer specific for your Mac (Mountain Lion, Lion, Snow Leopard)
- Configure macports using Terminal console
sudo port selfupdate
Here sudo need your favorite password.
- Install required tools to build addons using macports.
sudo port install automake autoconf libtool pkgconfig
- Install boost headers.
sudo port install boost sudo ln -s /opt/local/include/boost /usr/local/include/boost
- Install mysql-connector-c
cd ; mkdir src ; cd src curl -L http://mirror.cogentco.com/pub/mysql/Connector-C/mysql-connector-c-6.0.2-osx10.5-x86-64bit.tar.gz \ -o mysql-connector-c-6.0.2-osx10.5-x86-64bit.tar.gz tar xvfz mysql-connector-c-6.0.2-osx10.5-x86-64bit.tar.gz cd mysql-connector-c-6.0.2-osx10.5-x86-64bit sudo cp bin/* /usr/local/bin/ sudo cp lib/* /usr/local/lib/ sudo mkdir /usr/local/include/mysql sudo cp -R include/ /usr/local/include/mysql/ cd
- Download xbmc-pvr-addons sources from git repository
cd src git clone git://github.com/fetzerch/xbmc-pvr-addons.git
- Build it
cd xbmc-pvr-addons ./bootstrap ./configure --enable-addons-with-dependencies make clean zip
- Install addon pvr.mythtv.cmyth with XBMC frodo (nightly build)
Get it from src/xbmc-pvr-addons/addons/pvr.mythtv.cmyth-darwin-unknown.zip and upload it with XBMC as zip file.
Build MythTV addon on Windows
- Install Visual C++ 2010
- Download xbmc-pvr-addons sources from git repository
cd src git clone git://github.com/fetzerch/xbmc-pvr-addons.git
- Execute DownloadBuildDeps.bat in xbmc-pvr-addons\project\BuildDependencies
- Open xbmc-pvr-addons.sln from xbmc-pvr-addons\project\VS2010Express in Visual C++ 2010
- Build it
- To install the addon, copy the folder xbmc-pvr-addons\addons\pvr.mythtv.cmyth\addon to your XBMC Frodo addon direcory
Build MythTV git into OpenELEC
- Follow normal OpenELEC build instructions (http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php?title=Compile_from_source) but adjust the "Start compiling" procedure as below
cd OpenELEC.tv
- Run the below script to replace normally included pvr-addons with latest development git version
#!/bin/bash source ./packages/mediacenter/xbmc-pvr-addons/meta if [ ! -d ./sources/$PKG_NAME/ ]; then mkdir -p ./sources/$PKG_NAME/ fi wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/fetzerch/xbmc-pvr-addons/archive/master.zip unzip master.zip mv xbmc-pvr-addons-master $PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION tar -cJf $PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.xz $PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION rm -r $PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION master.zip mv $PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.xz ./sources/$PKG_NAME/ md5sum sources/$PKG_NAME/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.xz > sources/$PKG_NAME/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.xz.md5 echo "http://sources.openelec.tv/devel/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.xz" > ./sources/$PKG_NAME/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.xz.url rm -rf ./build.OpenELEC*/.stamps/xbmc-pvr-addons ./build.OpenELEC*/xbmc-pvr-addons-* ./build.OpenELEC*/image/.stamps/xbmc-pvr-addons
- Continue with regular build instructions (PROJECT=XXX ARCH=YYY make release)