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Hi,

 

I need some informations to develop and build enigma2 plugin.

I understand that the langage is python.

My computer is on Windows 10 Pro

What is the software to edit and build an ipk file ?

If there is a topic to explain how proceed, it would be very nice.

 

Thanks

ipk's are created by the build process, by bitbake, based on a bitbake build recipe.

 

You can construct it manually, for which you need "ar" to pack and unpack it (no idea if a Windows compatible version exists), and "tar" / "gzip" to work with the archives inside the ipk.

 

Any source editor will do, as long as it can save files in UTF-8 with linux line-ends (LF instead of CR-LF).

Bitbake seems to work only on linux and I have VirtualBox and Ubuntu installed.

 

Ok for that  : files in UTF-8 with linux line-ends (LF instead of CR-LF).

 

Thanks

Ubuntu is fine.

 

You will have to install our OE repo, add your recipe to meta-local, after which you can use bitbake to build that specific recipe (without having to build an entire image).

 

You can find what you need to install in Ubuntu in our wiki: https://wiki.openpli..._for_Developers

Thanks

Use linux your receiver.

/usr/bin/ipk-maker make_dir /tmp/IPK-BUILD

chown -Rh root:root /tmp/IPK-BUILD
/usr/bin/ipk-maker build /tmp/IPK-BUILD

Edited by Dimitrij, 12 August 2020 - 17:36.

An arm and a mipsel package for the same box?

Before thinking about how to build an IPK, start with implementing the plugin. That’s much more difficult. At best look at other plugins and try to understand what they do.
I hope you are already a developer.
You can write the plugin on the box or with a normal editor (well for python you need one which shows white spaces). You don’t need Linux for that.

@Dimitrij,@betacentauri : thanks

 

I take a look on others pulgins.

 

I am a Visual Studio developper (VB.net). With this developpement environnement is very simple (debug mode is excellent).

 

I know that now, i have to use Notepad++ on DUO4K

Because you develop on the platform your app has to run.

 

If you want a comparable IDE for Python, I can recommend JetBrains' PyCharm.

For ipk you can try https://forums.openp...d-generator-10/

 

And for python examples you could check github for .py sources

Thanks