Rockbox on Raspberry

[__builtin]

There should be a "rockbox" executable in your build directory and under /usr/local/bin. Can you run the following commands from your build directory and post their output?

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ls | grep rockbox
ls /usr/local/bin | grep rockbox


[WS64]

The output for both is empty. That's what I'm trying to say, there is no executable!

[__builtin]

You did run "make" to actually build the binary, right? If you did then I'm stumped.

[WS64]

I guess I reall missed one step
I always did first
../tools/configure
and then
make fullinstall

Now I tried a sinple "make", this results in this:

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...
CC firmware/common/vuprintf.c
/home/pi/rockbox/apps/recorder/jpeg_idct_arm.S:25:31: fatal error: apps/core_asmdefs.h: No such file or directory
 #include "apps/core_asmdefs.h"
                               ^
compilation terminated.
/home/pi/rockbox/tools/root.make:440: recipe for target '/home/pi/rockbox/wsbin/apps/recorder/jpeg_idct_arm.o' failed
make: *** [/home/pi/rockbox/wsbin/apps/recorder/jpeg_idct_arm.o] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
In file included from /home/pi/rockbox/apps/plugin.h:64:0,
                 from /home/pi/rockbox/apps/recorder/jpeg_load.c:30:
/home/pi/rockbox/firmware/export/font.h:36:21: fatal error: sysfont.h: No such file or directory
 #include "sysfont.h"
                     ^

More errors follow, I think they all complain about sysfont.h

The above was for SDL.

When I choose an Archos Recorder and Simulation I'll get this error:

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/home/pi/rockbox/wsbin/apps/bitmaps/native/rockboxlogo.112x30x1.c:880:15: note: (near initialization for ‘bm_rockboxlogo.data’)
/home/pi/rockbox/tools/root.make:451: recipe for target '/home/pi/rockbox/wsbin/apps/bitmaps/native/rockboxlogo.112x30x1.o' failed
make: *** [/home/pi/rockbox/wsbin/apps/bitmaps/native/rockboxlogo.112x30x1.o] Error 1

[Bilgus]

Ok so lets make this step by step

Starting in the root of the directory you have the rockbox source in (looks to be /home/pi/rockbox)

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mkdir rbsdl
cd rbsdl
../tools/configure --target=200 --lcdwidth=320 --lcdheight=480 --type=n
make
sudo make install
rockbox


[WS64]

@Bilgus, thanks, will try this evening!

Should I delete the
/usr/local/share/rockbox
directory before?

[Bilgus]

shouldn't have to but can't hurt

[WS64]

Something new happened:

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ZIP apps/lang/voicestrings.zip
make: zip: Command not found
/home/pi/rockbox/apps/lang/lang.make:55: recipe for target '/home/pi/rockbox/rbsdl/apps/lang/voicestrings.zip' failed
make: *** [/home/pi/rockbox/rbsdl/apps/lang/voicestrings.zip] Error 127

So I did

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sudo apt-get install zip
and repeated the make.

This time it worked way longer, but still resulted in an error:

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LD rockbox
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldirectfb
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
/home/pi/rockbox/uisimulator/uisimulator.make:34: recipe for target '/home/pi/rockbox/rbsdl/rockbox' failed
make: *** [/home/pi/rockbox/rbsdl/rockbox] Error 1

How do I solve this?

[Bilgus]

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldirectfb


a quick google for raspi and the library name directfb got this..
https://computerstruggles.blogspot.com/2013/02/how-to-program-directfb-in-c-on.html

[Bilgus]

now (after you get that library) you should type

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make cleanand start from the beginning again
it's not always necessary but it cuts down on issues

[WS64]

Nearly there (I hope)...
make now worked (after "sudo apt-get install libdirectfb-dev")
But still:

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~/rockbox/rbsdl$ sudo make install
Installing your build in your '/usr/local' dir
~/rockbox/rbsdl$ rockbox
Segmentation fault

Update: My mistake. I run that via SSH.
When I start it directly on my Raspberry it starts! It still is unreadable (too small), do I have to do all steps aginain with a smaller resolution?


Next is to find out how to use the buttons on the Gmae Hat instead of the keyboard...

[Bilgus]

yeah no clue there, something is either mis-configured or just plain wrong for it to be accessing memory that throws a segfault but hey we got the binary!

I'd probably start from the very beginning like clean slate brand new pi and start over but it might just be a bad package somewhere or your compiler is funky
IDK, maybe someone else will chime in that has a raspi

[Bilgus]

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rm -rf rbsdl
mkdir rbsdl
cd rbsdl
../tools/configure --target=200 --lcdwidth=320 --lcdheight=480 --type=n
make
sudo make install
rockbox

lcdwidth=320 --lcdheight=480

just be sure you keep the proper aspect ratio
I'm not sure what is supported TBH

[Bilgus]

smaller should make the text bigger like 240 x 360 or something like that

[WS64]

Yes, that's what I did, much better:


Is there a config file for the mapping of the keys somewhere?
I need an exit button, not sure if that exists since you usually don't need that.

But thanks all of you, that was a big help for me!