Difference between revisions of "NeTV local compilation"

Revision as of 04:26, 7 September 2011

NeTV includes the abilities to download packages that are pre-compiled from the chumby release servers.

To do local development, you will use this facility to install gcc.

Getting the compiler installed

First, connect to the network using the NeTV UI. Once you are connected to the network, ssh into the device.

Now, type the command

opkg update

This will update the list of installable packages.

Before going on, you will need to change / to be writeable. This is done by using

mount -o remount,rw /

In order to install gcc, you will need to first remove some packages to make space. If you aren't planning on using python, that's an easy to remove and fairly large package. You can remove it by doing

opkg remove python-core --force-removal-of-dependent-packages

If you do want to retain python, have a look at the list of installed packages using "opkg list-installed" and pick packages that you don't need.

Once you have freed up about 50 MB, you can run

opkg install task-sdk-native

This process will download all of the files, headers, and executables required to do C development.

Once this process is done, you can now use gcc:

gcc -o hello hello.c
./hello
hello world!