Tvheadend

yes

guy dububu,

could you maybe provide pointers for the topic starter so that he can resolve his ARM compilation problems instead of just answering with "yes".

Hein

Yes, please guy dububu

i could certainly do that id I wanted to

Jokes aside,

I just compiled it on a Debian Squeeze device with build-essetientials installed. Nothing special.

apt-get install git-core build-essential libssl-dev libssl0.9.8 pkg-config avahi-daemon
git clone https://github.com/andoma/tvheadend
./configure
make

You couls add --cpu=armv4t --release --disable-avahi to ./configure if you want to but I didn't and it worked fine

ok thanks !
but the problem appear only on ARM compilation not on x86 !
but i will retry !

Hi,
i doesn't work with --cpu=armv4t --release --disable-avahi options (it generates a x86 binary).

but i'am not very freindly with that kind of things.

regards

You're getting a x86 binary? I guess you're building on an x86 device?

I'm compiling it directly on the Arm device. If you can't do that I think you have to do something called cross-compile but i'm not familiar with that.

yes,
on ubuntu i have used the synology tool chain to "cross compil". In their documentation i have used :

env CC=/usr/local/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/bin/arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc \
LD=/usr/local/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/bin/arm-none-linux-gnueabi-ld \
RANLIB=/usr/local/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/bin/arm-none-linux-gnueabi-ranlib \
CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/include" \
LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/lib"

./configure \
--host=armle-unknown-linux \
--target=armle-unknown-linux \
--build=i686-pc-linux \
--disable-avahi \
--release \
--prefix=/usr/local

make

And i have the __sync_fetch_and_add_4 error at the link edition.
I have found on tvheadend forum somebody that ad the same issue.

Yeah, that's me, I finally got it to work on a Pogoplug style device (armv5) running Debian lenny (compiling on squeeze as of now). I gave some details there:
[[https://www.lonelycoder.com/redmine/boards/5/topics/2316]]

Basically this was for me at least a matter of using the adequate gcc version capable of generating code for that nasty __sync_fetch_and_add_4. Give it a try with that version of gcc and report back!

If you want I think you can replace atomic.h with the one from Showtime

see: https://github.com/andoma/showtime/blob/master/src/arch/atomic.h

That file include asm specific code when you are on gcc versions below 4.3

ok, thanks !
could it be possible to have native "arm" support with tvheadend ?

regards

Hi !!
so i have use the atomic.h file from Showtime (and clean in it all what was not arm ... ), compil it and run it : that seems to work (i don't have the sundtek key yet).
Compilation tool chain provide by synology . I have run it under ubuntu 11.10.
Options for compilation environnement & configure.

env CC=/usr/local/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/bin/arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc \
LD=/usr/local/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/bin/arm-none-linux-gnueabi-ld \
RANLIB=/usr/local/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/bin/arm-none-linux-gnueabi-ranlib \
CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/include" \
LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/lib" \
./configure \
--host=armle-unknown-linux \
--target=armle-unknown-linux \
--build=i686-pc-linux \
--disable-avahi \
--release \
--prefix=/usr/local
...
make

Ok, I've pushed showtime's version of atomic.h to master now

oh !!
cool ! thanks a lot !
i have only compiled with version 2.12 of tvheadend (from tar.gz).
I will try from the git !

Hi,
so this is in progress.
I have directly compil the tvheadend on the NAS from the GIT. And i have received the TNT dongle.
I made tests with sundtek support and it works fine on my synology DS211.
...
but (there is always a but), tvheadend doesn't display channel names for example and other things (i will provide picture this evening).
but if channels are set manually it works !

So i would like to have your comments is any ! maybe i have miss something ! does somebody have run tvheadend on ARM ?

regards
nunu

Search the forums .....

https://www.lonelycoder.com/redmine/boards/5/topics/2082?r=2532#message-2532

You need to instal a Full version of gconv ...

Hein

Thanks a lot ! it solves the problem.

And your right i should have check the forums before ...

regards

Wel, not everybody is trying to read everything on these forums .... And then stil remember an old post ....

Happy that it works ....

Manuel J. Garcia Egido pasquiers: can you explain how you managed to compile tvheadend on ubuntu? Where did you get your toolchain? Which packages did you need? Anything to configure?

Thanks,
Lennart

all instruction are in the documents (where to keep the toolchain) :
http://download.synology.com/download/ds/userguide/Synology%20DiskStation%20Manager%203rd-Party%20Apps%20Developer%20Guide_V2.pdf

and from tvheadend directory :

env CC=/usr/local/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/bin/arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc \
LD=/usr/local/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/bin/arm-none-linux-gnueabi-ld \
RANLIB=/usr/local/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/bin/arm-none-linux-gnueabi-ranlib \
CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/include" \
LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/lib" \
./configure \
--host=armle-unknown-linux \
--target=armle-unknown-linux \
--build=i686-pc-linux \
--disable-avahi \
--release \
--prefix=/usr/local
and then
make

But now i compil directly tvheadend on the NAS.

Hope this help

I followed instructions as described in Synology guide and mentioned in this topic but every time i try to compile tvheadend it's giving missing libssl or openssl
the following errors

CC build.linux/tvheadend
/usr/local/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/4.2.1/../../../../arm-none-linux-gnueabi/bin/ld: cannot find -lssl
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [build.linux/tvheadend] Error 1
openelec@openelec-VirtualBox:~/tvheadend$

It has something to do with SSL but SSL is installed on my system:
openelec@openelec-VirtualBox:~/tvheadend$ apt-cache search libssl | grep SSL
libcherokee-mod-libssl - Cherokee web server - SSL crypto functions plugin
libssl-ocaml - OCaml bindings for OpenSSL (runtime)
libssl-ocaml-dev - OCaml bindings for OpenSSL
libssl-dev - SSL development libraries, header files and documentation
libssl0.9.8 - SSL shared libraries

Do i need to add extra argument to point to openssl maybe?
Any ideas on how to solve this ?

hello, i read this article because i have a question:

if tvheadend added support for arm compilation does we could compile them with Android Kernel so it could run on a tv box come with Android?

Hello! Here you can find a package SPK tvheadend for arm-sinology built for gcc-4.6.2, which helps you to build and switch on timeshift. The package was built on the basis of final version of GIT Tvheadend for today. It was tested on DSM 411j and DSM212j (armv5tej).
I don't use DVB adapters, only IPTV, that's why can't check if it functons correctly or not. That's the reason i'm asking you to test the system. If there are some mistakes, i'll fix them.

@Sergey

How did you compile it ?
Going to test it in a few on my DS211