How To Patch and Compile Tutorial (From WINDOWS)

[Looking for Help]

-pX as is X is 0-5?

[dunno]

2.6 Open up a windows explorer (or internet explorer if windows doesn't have an address bar) and type in the following
Code:

\\debian\user

do I type in Code: first and then the command line, or just what comes after where it says Code:

[dunno]

I'm stuck at 2.9a

patch --dry-run --binary -p0 < numeric_sort.patch

vmware tells me, "No such file or directory"

and really, I have followed the instructions to a "T"

I dont really expect an answer to this, but I'm just damned frustrated and could eat a bucket of live snakes right now.

[Looking for Help]

No you DO NOT need that code: for your first question. I'll remove that from the guide.

Second, make sure that you have the patches in the rockbox-devel folder. If that doesn't work, I'm not sure, someone told me it would work, but I haven't tested it.

[dunno]

after loging into rockbox's cvs server I get this warning

cvs login: warning: Failed to open /home/user/. cvspass for reading: no such file or directory.

now i guess that I'm supposed to have these direcotries in C:\, but isnt vmware supposed to have created the required directories.

totally lost here

[Looking for Help]

after loging into rockbox's cvs server I get this warning

cvs login: warning: Failed to open /home/user/. cvspass for reading: no such file or directory.

now i guess that I'm supposed to have these direcotries in C:\, but isnt vmware supposed to have created the required directories.

totally lost here

VMware player should automatically install into C:\. Not sure why it didn't...

[dunno]

I have put the patches in the rockbox-devel direcotry, I run "dir" in vmware and it sees the files there.

here's where I am stuck

whe I type in "patch --dry-run -p0 < playlist_catalog_4.diff , it returns "No such file or directory"

below are the diferent syntax's that I have tried.

patch -p0 < /rockbox-devel/patchname
patch -p0 < /patchname

now, why does it "see" the files if I do a "dir" and not when I patch ?

 
(I get vmware to compile a normal version no problems)

[Looking for Help]

I have put the patches in the rockbox-devel direcotry, I run "dir" in vmware and it sees the files there.

here's where I am stuck

whe I type in "patch --dry-run -p0 < playlist_catalog_4.diff , it returns "No such file or directory"

below are the diferent syntax's that I have tried.

patch -p0 < /rockbox-devel/patchname
patch -p0 < /patchname

now, why does it "see" the files if I do a "dir" and not when I patch ?

 
(I get vmware to compile a normal version no problems)

Did you cd to the rockbox-devel folder?

Code: [Select]

cd rockbox-devel

Type that in first.

[dunno]

yes I did cd rockbox-devel and thats where it would see the patch files if i did "dir", or do you mean I needed to cd rockbox-devel twice ?
but......
I have decided to stop struggling with this, and removed vmware, although this was just a "for fun project", I am dissapointed that I didn't get it to run.

thanks for your help.

p.s.
I'll try again after the feature freeze if my pet patches dont get incorporated.

[Looking for Help]

yes I did cd rockbox-devel and thats where it would see the patch files if i did "dir", or do you mean I needed to cd rockbox-devel twice ?
but......
I have decided to stop struggling with this, and removed vmware, although this was just a "for fun project", I am dissapointed that I didn't get it to run.

thanks for your help.

p.s.
I'll try again after the feature freeze if my pet patches dont get incorporated.

Why would you be executing a "dir" command? Do you even know how to get into that folder? Can you even access \\debain\user ? Apparently not...

You probably missed a step, or the patches are defective. If you got a bunch of messages when trying to patch that say "Hunk 1: FAILED" or something like that, the patches are bad. Sorry that this didn't work for you.

[dunno]

Why would you be executing a "dir" command? Do you even know how to get into that folder?

I used "dir" 'cause thats what I used to use in the old dos days to see what was in a directory, and its the same cmd here, and yes I did know how to get into the directory because I saw the files that were within the rockbox-devel directory listed exactly as they were in explorer, and to answer your question, yes I do know how to use dos commands and do know how to move around directories using dos.....as I said earlier i did manage to do a NORMAL compile, but thats pointless as one can just download the daily.

[Looking for Help]

The patches were probably defective then, and that's why the --dry-run command didn't work. The --dry-run command tells whether or not a patch is legitimate, without actually patching it up.

[michael.conner]

thanks for this tut -- works brilliantly!

[lixer]

anyone know why i'm getting these messages when i'm trying make the zip file:

soorma ipod5g # make fullzip
Skip ipodVOL.wps due to size restraints
Skip engineeer2.wps due to size restraints
Skip iAmp.wps due to size restraints
Skip zezayer.wps due to size restraints
Skip marquee.wps due to size restraints
Skip DancePuffDuo.wps due to size restraints

[Llorean]

Because it's skipping those files due to size restraints?

They're WPSes that don't match the dimensions of the screen, so they're skipped.