SDL Version of rockbox

[ljones]

Hello all!

I'm having a problem configuring rockbox while running it as an SDL program. I can compile rockbox correctly but if I try to save settings (theme settings) from within rockbox itself I get a "failed" error message. I also wanted to change the location of rockbox from /.rockbox to /media/ramdisk/.rockbox (I use a RAM disc on my PC).

The system I'm using to do this is an x86-64 Ryzen 7 PC with 64GB RAM running debian trixie.

Here's how I compiled:

1. Downloaded rockbox with git (git clone git://git.rockbox.org/rockbox)
2. Enter rockbox directory, make directory build, cd build and then configured with) :
 ../tools/configure --lcdwidth=640 --lcdheight=480 --rbdir=/media/ramdisk/.rockbox --target=200 --type=N --prefix=/media/ramdisk
3. Ran make -j8
4. Ran make fullinstall
5. Copied the icons across (for some reason it isn't done) cp -rf $HOME/rockbox/icons/* /media/ramdisk/share/rockbox/icons/

This seems to work -- I have the default theme loaded with icons.

Changing the font seems to work as well (saving the changes dosen't). So if I were to go to settings/theme settings/font/24-Terminus this changes the font as expected. However if I then close rockbox and re-open the old default font is used and not the one chosen.

If I go to settings/manage settings/save theme settings and try to save the theme settings rockbox defaults to "/media/ramdisk/.rockbox/themes/theme01.cfg" . However if I try to save rockbox simply says "Failed". I tried making the directory /media/ramdisk/.rockbox/themes and checked its permissions but get "Failed" regardless of this directory existing or not existing.

I also see that rockbox has a "--root" option but what it it used for? I can specify (for example);

$ ./rockbox --root $HOME
or even
$ ./rockbox --root /media/ramdisk

But it doesn't seem to do anything. Saving theme files still fails :-(

Can anyone help?

thanks
ljones