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phenigma

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Re: Raspberry Pi omxplayer device
« Reply #15 on: July 23, 2012, 09:45:18 pm »
I agree that a qemu chroot enironment it is by far the easiest to setup and use initially.

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Re: Raspberry Pi omxplayer device
« Reply #16 on: July 23, 2012, 11:51:09 pm »
I'm doing non-intel stuff for years now and have been through a lot of pain with different cross compiling environments and approaches. Native compilation also hurts as it takes ages, even with "beefy" cpus like the recent ARM ones. Using binfmt-misc and a static qemu in a chroot just rocks.

For interested readers, this is a good start: http://wiki.debian.org/EmDebian/CrossDebootstrap#QEMU.2BAC8-debootstrap_approach

Instead of step 6) I'd just run /debootstrap/debootstrap --second-stage
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Re: Raspberry Pi omxplayer device
« Reply #17 on: July 24, 2012, 12:42:10 am »
More importantly, this can be adapted so that MakeRelease can build arm packages for linuxmce. (I would suggest this as an exercise, to be able to run the Ubuntu_Helpers_NoHardCode scripts under such an environment.)

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Re: Raspberry Pi omxplayer device
« Reply #18 on: July 24, 2012, 03:15:19 am »
1. i <3 this thread
2. how were you intending to approach the omxplayer and playing videos?
3. goddamned wait time for a pi!!!!!!!ack!!!

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Re: Raspberry Pi omxplayer device
« Reply #19 on: July 24, 2012, 01:31:54 pm »
I'll wiki it once I go over my steps
Think this should cover it
http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/RaspberryPi#Debian_Chroot_Environment
If I've missed something please update, or ping me and I will.

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I should really get this thread back on topic :)

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Re: Raspberry Pi omxplayer device
« Reply #20 on: July 24, 2012, 04:10:21 pm »
More importantly, this can be adapted so that MakeRelease can build arm packages for linuxmce. (I would suggest this as an exercise, to be able to run the Ubuntu_Helpers_NoHardCode scripts under such an environment.)

-Thom

I am using MakeRelease and the Ubuntu_Helpers_NoHardCode scripts to build for the Pi within both a chroot/qemu environment AND a scratchbox cross-compile environment.  The qemu environment is by far and away simpler and easier to setup compared to the cross-compile method.

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