Testing build on pc not player

[dkarma]

These forums and this project is excellent!!!
This is probably a noobish question, but...
I have begun modifying various files etc and have a complete build w/ no errors, however I only have one sansa and don't want to reinstall RB over the current stable installation.  Is there a way to test my new build on my pc (xp) first?  I've been trying to find out how to do this in the index section to no avail.  I have been running cygwin for building / compiling and it has worked so far do I run it in that envrionment or can i build an exe somehow?  I tried the make install command and got an error

thx in advance

[LambdaCalculus]

Try compiling your build as a simulator to see the results. But you should always keep a backup of the official build you're running on, especially in cases where you roll your own builds.

[dkarma]

thanks for teh quick response.  I re read the compiling section but had missed the sim part at the bottom...running one now.

plz close thread

thx

[bluebrother]

Please follow our forum guidelines and use real words. "plz", "thx" and similar aren't allowed here.

[dkarma]

Try compiling your build as a simulator to see the results. But you should always keep a backup of the official build you're running on, especially in cases where you roll your own builds.

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Simulator build was successfull, but the make install command never made a rockboxui.exe file to run...

[LambdaCalculus]

Try executing it using the following command:

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./rockboxui --background

[dkarma]

for both ./rockboxui.exe and ./rockboxui.exe --background
i get bash: ./rockboxui.exe no such file or directory
there is a .rockbox dir in the archos dir though

[saratoga]

If you didn't get an executable file, then your 'make' command probably didn't work.  Double check to see if your code actually compiled.

[oleg]

You wasn't told to execute:

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./rockboxui.exe --background

try running:

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./rockboxui --background

(without ".exe")

[dkarma]

that doesn't work either
file not found



also the make worked because i have a .rockbox folder in the archos dir after the simulator build...

[dkarma]

the original make exited on the language.o file

error message says relocations in generic elf (EM: 40)
 could not read symbols: File in wrong format
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status.

so there is no rockboxui.exe the make didn't make one because of the error on language.o

has anyone else had this problem?

might be a problem w/ sdl so i'm re installing that package

also is SVN required for the simulator build to be made?

[dkarma]

reinstalled sdl and retried to build in simulator mode...same error

[LambdaCalculus]

Please make use of the "modify" button on your message in the future, and please don't double or even triple post. This is stated in the forum guidelines.

[saratoga]

It would help if you posted the entire error, not just the last line of it.

[dkarma]

It would help if you posted the entire error, not just the last line of it.

I'd love to but i can't remember how to pipe the output to a file in cygwin
what i posted is basically everything related to the error except for the directory tree of language.o file