Compile Software for the Humax

Compiling on-box

It is possible to compile some software directly on the Humax itself, however due to the limited amount of CPU horsepower available, this is only recommended for fairly small packages.

First you need to install the gcc and gawk packages. gcc is the compiler itself and automatically pulls in dependant packages, gawk is needed to properly support packages which use GNU autoconf, which most do.

humax# opkg install gcc gawk

After this, close your telnet session and create a new one to properly set up the environment, and you are ready to compile your first piece of software on the Humax.

Recommended configure parameters

CFLAGS="-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64" \
./configure \
        --prefix=/mod \
        --host=mipsel-linux \
        --target=mipsel-linux \
        --disable-nls

Test

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1. !/bin/sh

tar="gtar --owner=root --group=root" ar="/opt/GNUbinutils/bin/ar"

pkg=${1:?"No package specified"} dst=${2:-"base"} force=0 [ "$3" = "-f" ] && force=1

srcdir="src/$pkg" dstdir="`pwd`/pkg/$dst"

[ ! -d "$srcdir" ] && echo "$srcdir does not exist here." && exit 1 [ ! -d "$dstdir" ] && echo "$dstdir does not exist here." && exit 1

param() {

       grep "^$1:" $srcdir/CONTROL/control | cut -d: -f2 | sed 's/^  *//'

}

version=`param Version` arch=`param Architecture`

pkgfile="$dstdir/${pkg}_${version}_${arch}.opk"

if [ -f "$pkgfile" ]; then

       echo "$pkgfile already exists."
       [ $force -eq 0 ] && exit 1

fi

tmpdir=pkg/OPKG_BUILD.$$ [ -d "$tmpdir" ] && echo "Temporary directory already exists." && exit 1 mkdir $tmpdir

(cd $srcdir && $tar -czf - * --exclude=CONTROL) > $tmpdir/data.tar.gz (cd $srcdir/CONTROL && $tar -czf - *) > $tmpdir/control.tar.gz echo "2.0" > $tmpdir/debian-binary

(cd $tmpdir && $ar -crf $pkgfile debian-binary data.tar.gz control.tar.gz) rm -rf $tmpdir

echo "Packaged contents of $srcdir into $pkgfile"

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