Building using Wiki's VMWare Image doesn't work

[mydani]

Hello all,

first post!
I followed the documentation in the WIKI, setup everything as described and now I'm facing this problem with the latest Rockbox sources (trunk):

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debian:/home/user/Rockbox/build# make
svn: This client is too old to work with working copy '/home/user/Rockbox'; please get a newer Subversion client
svn: This client is too old to work with working copy '/home/user/Rockbox/tools'; please get a newer Subversion client
Generating dependencies
: bad interpreter: No such file or directoryir.pl: /usr/bin/perl
make: *** No rule to make target `/home/user/Rockbox/build/make.dep', needed by `all'.  Stop.
debian:/home/user/Rockbox/build#

What am I doing wrong here?

Regards,
Daniel
Post Merge: February 23, 2011, 05:10:47 AMSome more info:

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debian:/home/user/Rockbox/build# which sh-elf-gcc
/usr/local/sh-elf/bin/sh-elf-gcc
debian:/home/user/Rockbox/build# which perl
/usr/bin/perl

[nls]

That VM is severely outdated, you are better off getting a vanilla VM of some linux distro and following the guide for setting up a development environment on linux. I know ubuntu VM images are available at least.

[mydani]

Okay, I'm currently trying the one spread in the other thread. Maybe this one will work out of the box.
Introduction of CMake would maybe be  a good idea... :-D

[gevaerts]

Introduction of CMake would maybe be  a good idea... :-D

How would cmake suddenly work around svn version issues or fixing perl?

Seriously, our build system works pretty well...

[mydani]

I don't decline that your build system is pretty good! You misunderstood my intention a little bit I think. I made this suggestion just because I like the idea of being able to create projects for many existing and used IDEs out there, and I guess CMake is a nice option for the guys wanting to develop on Windows.

BTW: the prefered "build system" linked in the Wiki doesn't work too well, so please forgive me my statement.

[torne]

"build system" refers to the makefiles and scripts used to compile Rockbox, not the host OS on which you run those scripts. We know our VMware image is outdated, but nobody has had the time to do anything about it yet.

Using CMake doesn't magically make Windows able to compile for arm-eabi and able to run all of our build-time tools.

[mydani]

You're right, CMake is only an additional layer to create makefiles for different makefile processors. The tools like compiler, linker, flash-merge, etc. still have to be available for the specific platform.
Forget about my hint.

[saratoga]

I actually updated the VMware image a couple months ago, and it was working then.  Which image did you download?

[mydani]

Hi,
the one linked on this site:
http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/VMwareDevelopmentPlatform
Download the Rockbox VMware image (~ 217 MB) from this URL:
http://duke.edu/~mgg6/rockbox/rockbox-image.7z

Currently I'm building the ARM compiler in the image linked in one of the sticky threads in this forum.

[saratoga]

Strange, thats the image I uploaded.  It contains the current version of the rockbox ARM compiler.

[mydani]

Figured it out! And it was all my fault.

Instead of using the linux's svn to check the sources out I copied the sources I checked out using tortoisesvn on windows.Maybe some problems with file file character format or similar.

With the sources checked out again under linux it builds now.


Post Merge: February 24, 2011, 02:41:52 AMAs I'm not very familiar with GNU make - is there any option for incremental builds?

Thanks guys!

[torne]

make is an incremental build; it only updates output files whose input files have changed.

[mydani]

Oh! Then I maybe chose the one file to modify which is included by all others.