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[doglover]

The mono project runs these days on ARM processors. See:

https://www.mono-pro...-platforms/arm/

 

Is there any chance of compiling mono for ARM-enigma2 receivers?

I am using a Maxytec - Multibox SE with an ARM processor.

So are many other receiver (I believe the VU+ 4K models too)

 

I am interested in this to run Webgrab++ directly on the receiver.

For this mono is needed.

It will be slow, but for something like 100 channels it would be sufficient.

 

I cannot figure out how to do this myself.

Help is appreciated.

[WanWizard]

Doesn't look to be too complicated.

• cd into your local openpli-oe-core directory
• clone the mono repo:
  • if on release or develop: git clone https://github.com/D...s/meta-mono.git -b zeus
  • if on python3: git clone https://github.com/D...s/meta-mono.git -b hardknott
• edit ./build/conf/bblayers.conf and add the path to meta-mono to it
• MACHINE=multiboxse bitbake -c build -p mono

should do it.

 

It's a big one, here it's still busy compiling after 25 minutes...

[WanWizard]

NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 1279 tasks of which 1083 didn't need to be rerun and all succeeded.

real	43m50.679s
user	0m1.947s
sys	0m0.462s

compiles fine, but takes even longer than building Kodi.

[doglover]

Any chance I can get your ipk?

[WanWizard]

It is not "an ipk", it is an entire list of ipk's, so you need the entire image, including a feed. And I've ran a test compile for the hd66se, the only box I have a hardknott build environment for.

[doglover]

Tried to set-up myown build environment.

Ran into the first problem:

willy@willy-K95VM:~$ git clone git@github.com:OpenPLi/openpli-oe-core.git
Cloning into 'openpli-oe-core'...
git@github.com: Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.
willy@willy-K95VM:~$

 

[scriptmelvin †]

Tried to set-up myown build environment.
Ran into the first problem:

willy@willy-K95VM:~$ git clone git@github.com:OpenPLi/openpli-oe-core.git
Cloning into 'openpli-oe-core'...
git@github.com: Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.
willy@willy-K95VM:~$

You need to use https:

git clone https://github.com/OpenPLi/openpli-oe-core.git

[doglover]

OK that worked.

 

But tried to follow https://wiki.openpli..._your_own_build

 

Next error:  No rule for making image.

 

and:

 

MACHINE=multiboxse bitbake -c build -p mono

 

bitbake not found.

[WanWizard]

It could be my instructions were wrong, I never build using the native cli tools myself.

[scriptmelvin †]

The instructions work for me (with different MACHINE).

[doglover]

OK.  tried again.

First: tried starting but after 30 minutes.failed with a long list of errors.

 

What the .....

 

So, I restarted the image build again (with the same command).  And this finished without a hitch. 2 hours later I had a home build image.

 

But this was not what I wanted.

I wanted to build mono.

 

so tried:

 

MACHINE=multiboxse bitbake -c build -p mono

and

MACHINE=multiboxse bitbake -c build -p mono-master

 

(it is called meta-mono-master on my download)

 

No result: 

bitbake: opdracht niet gevonden  (not found)

 

Tried to install bitbake.  But no result.  (package not found)

What am I doing wrong?

 

PS: there is a bitbake folder in the openpli-oe-core folder

Edited by doglover, 23 July 2022 - 08:13.

[doglover]

Trying to build the feed:

willy@willy-K95VM:~/openpli-oe-core$ MACHINE=multiboxse make feed
Building feed for multiboxse
ERROR: Unable to start bitbake server (None)
ERROR: Server log for this session (/home/willy/openpli-oe-core/build/bitbake-cookerdaemon.log):
--- Starting bitbake server pid 2700 at 2022-07-23 10:02:34.368751 ---
ERROR: Layer mono is not compatible with the core layer which only supports these series: zeus (layer is compatible with gatesgarth kirkstone honister dunfell hardknott)

Makefile:133: recipe for target 'feed' failed
make: *** [feed] Error 1

Edit:  Needed to download the zeus branche.  (I think)

Edited by doglover, 23 July 2022 - 09:16.

[40H3X]

Maybe switch to hardknott-py3

(private㉿kali)-[~/OpenPLi/openpli-oe-core]
└─$ ls                
bitbake     meta-axasuhd   meta-gigablue      meta-openpli  meta-vuplus        openembedded-core
build       meta-dream     meta-local         meta-qt5      meta-xp            README
LICENSE     meta-edision   meta-maxytec       meta-qviart   meta-xpeedc        site.conf
Makefile    meta-formuler  meta-miraclebox    meta-sab      meta-xsarius.pli5
meta-abcom  meta-gfutures  meta-octagon       meta-spycat   meta-xtrend
meta-amiko  meta-gi        meta-openembedded  meta-uclan    meta-zgemma
                                                                                                    
┌──(private㉿kali)-[~/OpenPLi/openpli-oe-core]
└─$ git branch -r             
  origin/HEAD -> origin/develop
  origin/develop
  origin/develop-skin
  origin/hardknott
  origin/hardknott-py3
  origin/release-4
  origin/release-6.0
  origin/release-6.1
  origin/release-6.2
  origin/release-7.0
  origin/release-7.1
  origin/release-7.2
  origin/release-7.3
  origin/release-8.0
  origin/release-8.1
  origin/release-8.2
                                                                                                    
┌──(private㉿kali)-[~/OpenPLi/openpli-oe-core]
└─$ 

──(private㉿kali)-[~/OpenPLi/openpli-oe-core]
└─$ git checkout hardknott-py3
M       bitbake
M       meta-abcom
M       meta-amiko
M       meta-axasuhd
M       meta-dream
M       meta-edision
M       meta-formuler
M       meta-gfutures
M       meta-gigablue
M       meta-maxytec
M       meta-miraclebox
M       meta-octagon
M       meta-openembedded
M       meta-qt5
M       meta-qviart
M       meta-sab
M       meta-spycat
M       meta-uclan
M       meta-vuplus
M       meta-xpeedc
M       meta-xsarius.pli5
M       meta-xtrend
M       meta-zgemma
M       openembedded-core
branch 'hardknott-py3' set up to track 'origin/hardknott-py3'.
Switched to a new branch 'hardknott-py3'
                                                                                                    
┌──(private㉿kali)-[~/OpenPLi/openpli-oe-core]
└─$ 5~exit

 

[WanWizard]

You have to select the correct mono layer, the one that matches the OE you are using. For develop, you need "zeus", for python3, you need "hardknott".

Like I wrote:

 

• clone the mono repo:
  • if on release or develop: git clone https://github.com/D...s/meta-mono.git -b zeus
  • if on python3: git clone https://github.com/D...s/meta-mono.git -b hardknott

 

don't use master or mono-master.

 

 

If the bitbake binary is not in your path, use

cd /your/local/oe/directory
MACHINE=<machine> bitbake/bin/bitbake ...

[doglover]

The next error:

willy@willy-K95VM:~/openpli-oe-core$ MACHINE=multiboxse bitbake/bin/bitbake -c build -p mono-zeus
ERROR: Unable to find conf/bblayers.conf or conf/bitbake.conf. BBPATH is unset and/or not in a build directory?
willy@willy-K95VM:~/openpli-oe-core$ MACHINE=multiboxse bitbake/bin/bitbake -c build -p mono
ERROR: Unable to find conf/bblayers.conf or conf/bitbake.conf. BBPATH is unset and/or not in a build directory?
willy@willy-K95VM:~/openpli-oe-core$ MACHINE=multiboxse bitbake/bin/bitbake -c build -p mono
ERROR: Unable to find conf/bblayers.conf or conf/bitbake.conf. BBPATH is unset and/or not in a build directory?
willy@willy-K95VM:~/openpli-oe-core$ MACHINE=multiboxse bitbake/bin/bitbake -c build -p mono-zeus
ERROR: Unable to find conf/bblayers.conf or conf/bitbake.conf. BBPATH is unset and/or not in a build directory?

Both files do exist.

bblayers.conf in build/conf

bitbake.conf in bitbake/conf

[WanWizard]

No idea what goes wrong in your build environment, maybe someone with a plain bitbake setup can comment.

 

And there is no package called "mono-zeus", the package is always called "mono", zeus (or hardknott) is the branch checked out in meta-mono.

[40H3X]

Is everything configured/installed right, in the build enviroment, so for this moment forget about "mono", can you build any machine for OpenPLi, lets say develop?

[WanWizard]

I think the issue is the environment isn't prepped because make hasn't been run.

 

So to recap, all steps, based on hardknott:

mkdir ~/some-dir
cd ~/some-dir
git clone https://github.com/OpenPLi/openpli-oe-core.git -b hardknott-py3
cd openpli-oe-core
git clone https://github.com/DynamicDevices/meta-mono.git -b hardknott
make

and then to only build mono:

cd ~/some-dir
source env.source
MACHINE=<yourbox> bitbake -c build -p mono 

[doglover]

I have build the image and feed with make.
(Develop)
Finished finally without errors.

But I had to resort to downloading mono manual via a zip file.
Because the git clone failed for mono. Problems with logging in.
It said user and password are not enough. Token was required. No idea how to get this token.

Will try tomorrow the hardknott route.

Pls. Understand this is all new to me.

[el bandido]

I don't have the Multibox SE receiver to check my homebuild image. You may try it and see how it works as I would expect it to load and boot but cannot guarantee any result because I do not have that receiver. Mono is compiled in it.

http://162.216.113.2...iboxse-python3/

Edited by el bandido, 23 July 2022 - 20:10.