Problems with compiling / installing compiler

[Tiptoe]

Hey, I'm trying to get rockbox onto my gogear 6330 and I'm having a few problems. It's pretty much my first time using any type of linux based OS and I can't seem to get a certain part to work.

Basically, I've managed to get to step 8 in this guide http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/GoGearHDD6330#Installation_steps_for_HDD63x0 and then I get errors that tell me that the arm-elf compiler or something along those lines is not in the path so it's an improper command. After searching a bit and finding this http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/CrossCompiler , I saw that I apparently had to run the shell script in the rockbox/tools directory but when I try to do this I get the message:

ROCKBOXDEV: No write permission for /usr/local

Just wondering how I would go about fixing this since I don't really know much at all about debian.

Also the shell script is rockboxdev.sh

[saratoga]

try 'sudo ./rockboxdev.sh'.

This may also be helpful:

http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/LinuxSimpleGuideToCompiling

[Tiptoe]

I'm running debian through vmware and I get that sudo doesn't work. I tried to use "su" though but after typing "su ./rockboxdev.sh" I still get an error(not on my main computer at the moment so I can't say exactly what the error was because I'm just going off memory of what I did a few hours ago). Also thanks for the link, I'll check it out sometime tomorrow when I have time go get back on my main.

[saratoga]

If you want help, you should say what happened in more detail then "doesn't work".

[bluebrother]

"su ./rockboxdev.sh"

That's not the correct syntax for su. If you want to run a command directly with su, you need to use the -c option, i.e. "su -c ./rockboxdev.sh". Or switch to a root shell first ("su -", enter password when asked, then run rockboxdev.sh)

Please also check the man page of su(1).

[Tiptoe]

Thanks, I was able to install the compiler via using "su -c ./rockboxdev.sh" but now I seem to have another problem while trying to run the makefile.  Basically, after I type in make so that it runs the makefile built in the previous steps, I get these errors.



Any help on what this might be?

[Chronon]

Your screen shot is not legible. 

[Tiptoe]

Sorry, the forum seems to have resized the picture on it's own but still links directly to the original source. Here's the link to the picture http://i55.tinypic.com/68rigo.png

[bluebrother]

You've configured for the GoGear 6330. Since that player isn't in the automated build system (unless I've overlooked it) I wouldn't expect it to build at all, since this usually means its in an early stage of development. The front page also lists it as unusable.

To check if your build setup is working try a build for a target that uses the same toolchain but is considered stable. Any of the Ipod should do.

[Tiptoe]

Hey thanks for the suggestion. I ended up getting the iPod one to work so then I thought it might be an error on my part so I deleted the directories I had created previously for the gogear and it worked this time. My assumption is that since the compiler wasn't there before and I had tried to run the build via the 'make' command, it probably interfered with something and prevented it from working after the compiler had been installed. Everything works fine now. Thanks for the help!

Edit: One last question. I can't seem to manage to get the zip files that were created off of Debian. I'm using the VMWare Player linked to on the Rockbox website, and it says to get the files off of it using Samba. Unfortunately, I'm not really savvy at all about how to use any of these things and when I tried to simply map a network drive on Windows to \\debian\user with the information provided on http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/VMwareDevelopmentPlatform , it just tells me that I'm not able to connect. Could someone possibly help me? Thank you