Archive:Compile Kodi on Fedora/Red Hat/CentOS

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This is a tutorial on how to install XBMC on Fedora 8/9 & CentOS 5.2

Checkout from subversion

svn co http://xbmc.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/xbmc/branches/linuxport/XBMC/

Install Packages

Fedora 8
rpm -UVh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm
Fedora 9
rpm -Uvh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-9.rpm
CentOS 5 (32) 
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)
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

yum 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

*sudo ln -s /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.15.0.0 /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so (i386)
*sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.15.0.0 /usr/lib64/libmysqlclient.so (x86_64)

Configure

cd XBMC/
./configure

With the above installed packages this should go smoothly :)

Build

make

• The make can error out with;
  

Edit line 49 of XBMC/xbmc/cores/dvdplayer/Codecs/libDVDCSS/doc/latex/dvdcss_8h.tex
and remove the broken 'e' in the others name (change it to a regular 'e') and rerun make, all will work now :)

• jpegint.h error fix

cp XBMC/xbmc/lib/cximage-6.0/jpeg/jpegint.h /usr/include/

Then remake

• fribidi fix (Fedora 9/10)

You need to edit these two files:

xbmc/utils/CharsetConverter.h
xbmc/utils/ArabicShaping.h

from

#else
#include <iconv.h>
#include <fribidi/fribidi.h>
#include <fribidi/fribidi_char_sets.h>
#endif

to

#else
#include <iconv.h>
#include <lib/libfribidi/fribidi.h>
#include <lib/libfribidi/fribidi_char_sets.h>
#endif

Then remake again

Install

make install

When this completes you are done!
Simply log into Gnome (or KDE) and open up a terminal and type 'xbmc' and it will load.