patch installation

[Njones]

How Do you install the Line out- Headphone  patch on Sansa Fuzev2. After updating to the latest build the option to swich between line ot or headphones dissappeared.

[saratoga]

Setup the build tools, check out the source from git, apply the patch, and then build for your target.

See https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/DevelopmentGuide

[Njones]

I've downloaded the patch zip file and extracted the patch. Where do I put it on my player?

[saratoga]

I've downloaded the patch zip file and extracted the patch. Where do I put it on my player?

Maybe I wasn't clear above, but a patch is source code.  It doesn't go on the player at all. 

[Njones]

Before I switched to the latest dev. build I had installed the patch manually. Do I drag the zip file to the player and then extract it or do I drag the extracted file to the player?

[saratoga]

Before I switched to the latest dev. build I had installed the patch manually. Do I drag the zip file to the player and then extract it or do I drag the extracted file to the player?

You mean the old build?  If you have the .zip for it, just put it back on the player in place of the newer build.

[Njones]

Do I unzip it first or unzip it after I drag it to the player.

[saratoga]

Doesn't matter in the end, but unzipping first will be a lot faster.

[Njones]

Thanks

[[Saint]]

I feel like there's a lot of confusion here. Perhaps it is my confusion, but I need to make sure everything is crystal clear here so I'll lay it all out.

I've downloaded the patch zip file and extracted the patch. Where do I put it on my player?

You don't. Putting the patch .zip on the device will not achieve anything.

You need to set up a development environment, build the crosscompile toolchain for your target architecture, checkout the Rockbox source code repository, apply the patch to the source, and then finally compile a Rockbox binary for your target.

Then you can copy the patched build that you have compiled to your device, at which point you will lose support (unless you can replicate the issue on an official build) due to having a modified build (as you have now) and in order to receive further updates in future you would need to continue to compile your own binaries as updating to the official builds will remove the patched behavior (as you discovered).

What isn't clear here is if you are talking about a Rockbox binary archive, or a patch archive. If you are indeed talking about an archive that contains the line out patch, then you would need to refer to the beginning of this post.


[Saint]