How To Patch and Compile Tutorial (From WINDOWS)

[Yorixz]

I'm wondering if anyone has a mirror for the Debian VMWare Player image, the website seems to be down and I'm not really succeeding with this tutorial on my Ubuntu tryout.

[mojohand]

http://download.rockbox.org/vmware/Debian-2.7z

[Yorixz]

http://download.rockbox.org/vmware/Debian-2.7z

Thanks a lot, you saved my day

[drumthrasher109]

omg thanks! i haven't tried this yet but this seems very simple...i will try this very soon!

HELP! when downloading/looking for a patch, what am i supposed to download. i want to compile the 'chopper' game but the only thing there is a chopper.diff file. is this good?

[Looking for Help]

Thanks for bring up and giving me a link about Debian, I edited the post so it should work.

EDIT: 7zip was down too, fixed it.

[drumthrasher109]

i'm having an error 'making' the build...
i did the make command then it stopped at:
CC playback.c
playback.c: in funtion 'read_next_metadata':
playback.c:1686: error: too few arguments to function 'get_metadata'
playback.c: in function 'audio_load_track':
playback.c:1769: error: too few arguments to function 'get_metadata'
make[1]: *** [/home/user/rockbox-devel/build_h120/apps/playback.o] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2

any help???

[Febs]

Are you still having trouble with this? 

If so, you might want to check to make sure that your CVS tree is up to date.  From your rockbox-devel directory, type the following:

cvs update -dP

Note that this is case sensitive so capitalization is important.

[eK3eKyToPa]

I do everything as Looking for Help say but after i extract the zip file on my ipod nothing new comes exept that the .m2v files now have to be opened with Open with... and not automaticali by pressing only select button
Any ideas?

[Rincewind]

A litte bit of grammar and more information would help a lot.
Have you been compiling?
What patches? (with links to the tracker)
If you want help on a plugin, you should post in  the plugin form.
And finally: Read the posting guidlines!

[eK3eKyToPa]

Please help!
I do everything that Looking for Help say and it works
but afret i unzip the rockbox.zip file in the root of my ipod and start it nothing new NO doom_scroll NO chopper NO customline
HELP guys

[Febs]

I think that the word "it" should be banned from use in support questions.

"it works"  What works?  Patching?  Compiling step?  Creating the .zip file?  

"start it"  Start what?  Rockbox?  A particular plug-in?

I hate to be a pain, but while there are people here who are willing and able to help you, you need to provide enough information to allow us to do so.  As an example, I can't speak for anyone else, but I'm not going to try to figure out what you mean by "I do everything that Looking for Help say" if you are not going to bother to explain what you have done.  The questions that Rincewind has posted two posts above this one are a good start.  You may also want to read the "How to ask questions the smart way" link in Llorean's signature.

Basically what I'm trying to tell you is that the reason you're not getting answers is because you haven't explained, in any useable way, what you have done, what the result was, and what problem you are having.  If you can provide that information, we'll do our best to help you.

[eK3eKyToPa]

Sorry not good at english!
And the main poin it that I do everything to "make zip" command and the VMware Player create the rockbox.zip file. But afret I unzip the rockbox.zip in the root directory of my ipod and start the ipod nothing is changed
That is IT!
OK now ?

[bluebrother]

have you restarted the player?

[eK3eKyToPa]

The iPOd restarts with holding Menu+Select
If that Yes I do restart IT

[Mmmm]

Sorry not good at english!
And the main poin it that I do everything to "make zip" command and the VMware Player create the rockbox.zip file. But afret I unzip the rockbox.zip in the root directory of my ipod and start the ipod nothing is changed
That is IT!
OK now ?

So what you are saying is that you still get the same rockbox that you get without patching. In other words the patching and compiling process work fine, but the patches don't seem to change anything.
and the patches you are using are called  doom_scroll, chopper and customline.

Is that right?

If so then the answer is probably that the patches didn't apply or they just don't do what they are supposed to do (its probably the former). look for errors when you patch... things like "HUNK#1 failed at..." if you get these then the patching failed. If this happens then you need to apply it manually, fix the patch, or nicely ask the author to fix it for you.