2.3 Install XBMC from Source

The method to install XBMC from source is no different in principle to the one we have used on the previous chapter. There are however some minor modifications that need to take place in order to be successful with libRTMP support; Otherwise streaming will not work or errors like the following snippet are likely to occur during compile

xbmc/cores/dvdplayer/DVDInputStreams/DVDInputStreams.a(DVDFactoryInputStream.o): In function CDVDFactoryInputStream::CreateInputStream(IDVDPlayer*....blah...blah...blah.... /xbmc/cores/dvdplayer/DVDInputStreams/DVDFactoryInputStream.cpp:83: undefined reference to `CDVDInputStreamRTMP::CDVDInputStreamRTMP()' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [xbmc.bin] Error 1

First things first; Lets uncompress the XBMC 10.1 package sources into /usr/local using the following command

DarkStar:~#cd /usr/local DarkStar:/usr/local#tar -zxvf xbmc-10.1.tar.gz

Moving on, to get over the above mentioned problems the following actions need to take place prior to compiling the XBMC source code

• Make the libRTMP code available from rtmpdump into the XBMC source code

  DarkStar:/usr/local#cp -r rtmpdump-2.3/librtmp/ xbmc-10.1/xbmc/lib/libRTMP DarkStar:/usr/local#cd xbmc-10.1/xbmc/lib/libRTMP DarkStar:/usr/local/xbmc-10.1/xbmc/lib/libRTMP#make clean DarkStar:/usr/local/xbmc-10.1/xbmc/lib/libRTMP#joe Makefile

  Change the line prefix=/usr/local into prefix=/usr and then press Ctrl+K followed by X to exit Joe editor and save changes. Then install the library from this new location as follows

  DarkStar:/usr/local/xbmc-10.1/xbmc/lib/libRTMP#make;make install



• Remove obsolete (in our case) Windows library declarations

  DarkStar:/usr/local/xbmc-10.1/xbmc/lib/libRTMP#cd ../../cores/dvdplayer/DVDInputStreams/ DarkStar:/usr/local/xbmc-10.1/xbmc/cores/dvdplayer/DVDInputStreams#joe DVDInputStreamRTMP.cpp

  Modify the following snippet of the file

  #ifdef _WIN32 #include "system.h" // just for HAS_LIBRTMP #endif

  ,into the following code

  //#ifdef _WIN32 #include "system.h" // just for HAS_LIBRTMP //#endif

  Now press Ctrl+K followed by X to exit Joe editor and save all changes to the modified file. Also we have to get back to the root directory of the XBMC source code ready for our installation

  DarkStar:/usr/local/xbmc-10.1/xbmc/cores/dvdplayer/DVDInputStreams#cd ../../../../

At this point we can resume the XBMC source code installation as follows

DarkStar:/usr/local/xbmc-10.1#./bootstrap DarkStar:/usr/local/xbmc-10.1#./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var;make -j3;make install

XBMC should now be installed on the HTPC system and can be tested by initially issuing the "startx" command to get fluxbox running and then in a terminal window (right click on the desktop!) the "xbmc.bin" command.