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Repairing and Upgrading Rockbox Capable Players / Re: SSD sold by iPod Parts UK
« Last post by EHOT on April 18, 2025, 07:41:24 AM »You aren't wrong that iFlash adaptors can be troublesome.
I have been using two iPods every day for several months- Classic 7 and Video 5.5, they both work with flash-Quad, one with 256Gb Samsung and the other with Kingston 256Gb. I have never noticed any problems or errors related to the adapter. Everything works fine, used with the latest version of RockBox
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Starting Development and Compiling / Re: Build Failing...
« Last post by bahus on April 18, 2025, 06:39:50 AM »Also I used 247 and not 249 when selecting the build target.
249) Eros Q / K native (hw4 bl only)
My guess "hw4 bl only" means Bootloader only build for hw4 variant. So, no wonder it fails for Normal build.
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Starting Development and Compiling / Re: Build Failing...
« Last post by MinorKey on April 18, 2025, 06:06:39 AM »I finally got it to work. Not sure what was wrong before, but I cleared the TMP directory and ran rockboxdev.sh again and made sure that that finished properly.
Also I used 247 and not 249 when selecting the build target. In hindsight that could have been the whole problem. Either way, cool that it's finally working.
Also I used 247 and not 249 when selecting the build target. In hindsight that could have been the whole problem. Either way, cool that it's finally working.
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Starting Development and Compiling / Re: Build Failing...
« Last post by MinorKey on April 18, 2025, 03:52:36 AM »Thank you for your reply.
I think I posted the wrong output. Well not entirely wrong, but that's the output generated after running make -j for the second time, when there's already something in the build directory. This is actually what's generated generated after running make -j when that dir is blank:
CC lib/rbcodec/metadata/oma.c
CC lib/rbcodec/metadata/rm.c
CC lib/rbcodec/metadata/sgc.c
CC lib/rbcodec/metadata/sid.c
CC lib/rbcodec/metadata/smaf.c
CC lib/rbcodec/metadata/spc.c
CC lib/rbcodec/metadata/tta.c
CC lib/rbcodec/metadata/vgm.c
CC lib/rbcodec/metadata/vorbis.c
CC lib/rbcodec/metadata/vox.c
CC lib/rbcodec/metadata/wave.c
CC lib/rbcodec/metadata/wavpack.c
CC lib/rbcodec/metadata/aac.c
CC lib/mipsunwinder/backtrace-mips32.c
CC lib/mipsunwinder/init_context_32.S
CC lib/skin_parser/skin_buffer.c
CC lib/skin_parser/skin_parser.c
CC lib/skin_parser/skin_scan.c
CC lib/skin_parser/tag_table.c
CC lib/fixedpoint/fixedpoint.c
make: *** No rule to make target '/home/matej/git/rockbox/firmware/export/config/erosqnative_v4.h', needed by '/home/matej/git/rockbox/build/ram.link'. Stop.
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
matej@Linux-PC:~/git/rockbox/build$
It's as if the make process is hanging or something, but of course, I'm no expert when it comes to this.
Also this is what the configure step tells me after setting my target, but probably this is all OK:
229) NWZ-S750 series 233) DX90 240) Rocker
==FiiO== ==xDuoo== ==AIGO==
244) M3K Linux 241) X3 245) Eros Q / K
246) M3K baremetal 242) X3II 247) Eros Q / K native
243) X20 (hw1/hw2 bl, all hw rb)
==Shanling== 248) Eros Q / K native
260) Q1 (hw3 bl only)
249) Eros Q / K native
(hw4 bl only)
249
Platform set to erosqnative_v4
Build (N)ormal, (A)dvanced, (S)imulator, (B)ootloader, (C)heckWPS, (D)atabase tool, (W)arble codec tool: (Defaults to N)
n
Normal build selected
Using source code root directory: /home/matej/git/rockbox
Using mipsel-elf-gcc 4.9.4 (409)
Using mipsel-elf-ld
Detected make GNU Make 4.3
Found and uses ccache (/usr/bin/ccache)
Automatically selected arch: mips (ver 32)
Created Makefile
matej@Linux-PC:~/git/rockbox/build$
Edit: More/Fixed info
I think I posted the wrong output. Well not entirely wrong, but that's the output generated after running make -j for the second time, when there's already something in the build directory. This is actually what's generated generated after running make -j when that dir is blank:
CC lib/rbcodec/metadata/oma.c
CC lib/rbcodec/metadata/rm.c
CC lib/rbcodec/metadata/sgc.c
CC lib/rbcodec/metadata/sid.c
CC lib/rbcodec/metadata/smaf.c
CC lib/rbcodec/metadata/spc.c
CC lib/rbcodec/metadata/tta.c
CC lib/rbcodec/metadata/vgm.c
CC lib/rbcodec/metadata/vorbis.c
CC lib/rbcodec/metadata/vox.c
CC lib/rbcodec/metadata/wave.c
CC lib/rbcodec/metadata/wavpack.c
CC lib/rbcodec/metadata/aac.c
CC lib/mipsunwinder/backtrace-mips32.c
CC lib/mipsunwinder/init_context_32.S
CC lib/skin_parser/skin_buffer.c
CC lib/skin_parser/skin_parser.c
CC lib/skin_parser/skin_scan.c
CC lib/skin_parser/tag_table.c
CC lib/fixedpoint/fixedpoint.c
make: *** No rule to make target '/home/matej/git/rockbox/firmware/export/config/erosqnative_v4.h', needed by '/home/matej/git/rockbox/build/ram.link'. Stop.
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
matej@Linux-PC:~/git/rockbox/build$
It's as if the make process is hanging or something, but of course, I'm no expert when it comes to this.
Also this is what the configure step tells me after setting my target, but probably this is all OK:
229) NWZ-S750 series 233) DX90 240) Rocker
==FiiO== ==xDuoo== ==AIGO==
244) M3K Linux 241) X3 245) Eros Q / K
246) M3K baremetal 242) X3II 247) Eros Q / K native
243) X20 (hw1/hw2 bl, all hw rb)
==Shanling== 248) Eros Q / K native
260) Q1 (hw3 bl only)
249) Eros Q / K native
(hw4 bl only)
249
Platform set to erosqnative_v4
Build (N)ormal, (A)dvanced, (S)imulator, (B)ootloader, (C)heckWPS, (D)atabase tool, (W)arble codec tool: (Defaults to N)
n
Normal build selected
Using source code root directory: /home/matej/git/rockbox
Using mipsel-elf-gcc 4.9.4 (409)
Using mipsel-elf-ld
Detected make GNU Make 4.3
Found and uses ccache (/usr/bin/ccache)
Automatically selected arch: mips (ver 32)
Created Makefile
matej@Linux-PC:~/git/rockbox/build$
Edit: More/Fixed info
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Starting Development and Compiling / Re: Build Failing...
« Last post by speachy on April 17, 2025, 09:25:07 PM »I honestly have no idea what's wrong, other than perhaps something failing earlier in the build leading to this, most likely due to something being different from one environment/system to the other.
After every commit we rebuild _everything_ -- all binary packages, bootloaders, checkwpses, simulators, and manuals (nearly 400 separate builds in total!) and the board is currently completely warning-free for all of 'em.
(see https://build.rockbox.org/dev.cgi )
After every commit we rebuild _everything_ -- all binary packages, bootloaders, checkwpses, simulators, and manuals (nearly 400 separate builds in total!) and the board is currently completely warning-free for all of 'em.
(see https://build.rockbox.org/dev.cgi )
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Starting Development and Compiling / Build Failing...
« Last post by MinorKey on April 17, 2025, 11:32:58 AM »Hello,
I'm trying to set up my dev environment on a PC running Linux, but I'm getting an ugly set of errors and I have absolutely no clue what's going on. I had absolutely no problems getting it to work in the same distro on a virtual machine, so it's very odd that it refuses to do the same running on a real one for some reason.
I've downloaded the rockbox repo to a subfolder inside my home directory, but the result is the same even if I download it directly to my home folder.
This is what the terminal tells me after running make -j:
};
^
/home/matej/git/rockbox/apps/settings_list.c:114:40: warning: missing initializer for field ‘({anonymous})’ of ‘const struct settings_list’ [-Wmissing-field-initializers]
{.bool_setting=(struct bool_setting[]){{cb,yes_id,no_id,cfgvals}}} }
^
/home/matej/git/rockbox/apps/settings_list.c:118:13: note: in expansion of macro ‘BOOL_SETTING’
BOOL_SETTING(flags,var,lang_id,default,name,off_on, \
^
/home/matej/git/rockbox/apps/settings_list.c:2317:5: note: in expansion of macro ‘OFFON_SETTING’
OFFON_SETTING(0, playback_log, LANG_LOGGING, false, "play log", NULL),
^
In file included from /home/matej/git/rockbox/apps/settings_list.c:36:0:
/home/matej/git/rockbox/apps/settings_list.h:187:5: note: ‘({anonymous})’ declared here
};
^
make: *** [/home/matej/git/rockbox/tools/root.make:484: /home/matej/git/rockbox/build/apps/settings_list.o] Error 1
matej@Linux-PC:~/git/rockbox/build$
Here I was trying to build RB for theEros Q Native, but what I choose to build doesn't seem to make a difference.
I can still use my VM should it be necessary to test/update translations, but getting it to work on a real machine instead and getting rid of the VM would be far better.
So hope there's a solution for this, but be as it may, thanks for reading and have a nice day. 🙂
I'm trying to set up my dev environment on a PC running Linux, but I'm getting an ugly set of errors and I have absolutely no clue what's going on. I had absolutely no problems getting it to work in the same distro on a virtual machine, so it's very odd that it refuses to do the same running on a real one for some reason.
I've downloaded the rockbox repo to a subfolder inside my home directory, but the result is the same even if I download it directly to my home folder.
This is what the terminal tells me after running make -j:
};
^
/home/matej/git/rockbox/apps/settings_list.c:114:40: warning: missing initializer for field ‘({anonymous})’ of ‘const struct settings_list’ [-Wmissing-field-initializers]
{.bool_setting=(struct bool_setting[]){{cb,yes_id,no_id,cfgvals}}} }
^
/home/matej/git/rockbox/apps/settings_list.c:118:13: note: in expansion of macro ‘BOOL_SETTING’
BOOL_SETTING(flags,var,lang_id,default,name,off_on, \
^
/home/matej/git/rockbox/apps/settings_list.c:2317:5: note: in expansion of macro ‘OFFON_SETTING’
OFFON_SETTING(0, playback_log, LANG_LOGGING, false, "play log", NULL),
^
In file included from /home/matej/git/rockbox/apps/settings_list.c:36:0:
/home/matej/git/rockbox/apps/settings_list.h:187:5: note: ‘({anonymous})’ declared here
};
^
make: *** [/home/matej/git/rockbox/tools/root.make:484: /home/matej/git/rockbox/build/apps/settings_list.o] Error 1
matej@Linux-PC:~/git/rockbox/build$
Here I was trying to build RB for theEros Q Native, but what I choose to build doesn't seem to make a difference.
I can still use my VM should it be necessary to test/update translations, but getting it to work on a real machine instead and getting rid of the VM would be far better.
So hope there's a solution for this, but be as it may, thanks for reading and have a nice day. 🙂
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Rockbox Utility / Re: http error ssl handshake failed
« Last post by speachy on April 17, 2025, 08:18:20 AM »I still have the same issue under Fedora 41, and the same problem as other participants in this thread, namely that I only have access to Linux machines for this task. Plus, I don't want to downgrade OpenSSL to v1.1.1 due to security concerns. So although I'm not super tech savvy, I took this opportunity and put in a considerable amount of extra time to teach myself how to build the latest RockBox from source and install it manually. Can't say I regret having leant this skill, but I must admit having a working RockBox Utility would be a dream.
You've already gone through the trouble to bulld rockbox itself from source, so why not build rbutil as well?
(...Hilariously, Linux is the only target we're currently capable of building a releaseable rbutil binary from. But that's not what most folks need)
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Rockbox Utility / Re: http error ssl handshake failed
« Last post by moontan on April 17, 2025, 06:01:51 AM »I still have the same issue under Fedora 41, and the same problem as other participants in this thread, namely that I only have access to Linux machines for this task. Plus, I don't want to downgrade OpenSSL to v1.1.1 due to security concerns. So although I'm not super tech savvy, I took this opportunity and put in a considerable amount of extra time to teach myself how to build the latest RockBox from source and install it manually. Can't say I regret having leant this skill, but I must admit having a working RockBox Utility would be a dream.
Does anyone know if RockBox can be installed using RB Utility from inside a Windows VM? Though the activation for my virtualised Windows 10 instance was revoked (despite the Linux host system running on the same hardware the Windows product key was shipped with) I think that may be worth a try for future updates.
Does anyone know if RockBox can be installed using RB Utility from inside a Windows VM? Though the activation for my virtualised Windows 10 instance was revoked (despite the Linux host system running on the same hardware the Windows product key was shipped with) I think that may be worth a try for future updates.
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Feature Ideas / Setting to use folder and filename in WPS
« Last post by questions2000 on April 16, 2025, 02:58:56 PM »Currently the WPS Theme code determines what information is displayed in the WPS.
Typically WPS Themes seem to use ID3 data first and if none is found then it uses folder/filename data.
Some users may prefer to just use folder/filename data by default and not ID3 data.
Suggesting to add a setting that allows user to override the WPS code and automatically use folder/filename data in WPS.
This way editing of the WPS code is not required.
Thank You
Typically WPS Themes seem to use ID3 data first and if none is found then it uses folder/filename data.
Some users may prefer to just use folder/filename data by default and not ID3 data.
Suggesting to add a setting that allows user to override the WPS code and automatically use folder/filename data in WPS.
This way editing of the WPS code is not required.
Thank You
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Feature Ideas / Allow iPod lock switch to function as a light switch
« Last post by questions2000 on April 16, 2025, 02:56:40 PM »Suggesting to add setting that would allow the iPod (and other devices if have one) lock switch to function as a "light switch" for the display backlight.
I originally thought this was possible, but realized that although the lock switch does allow light to be turned "on" in the Settings, it still locks device which prevents any actions from being performed.
The idea of this setting would be that user can turn "off" the backlight and still be able to perform navigation/actions, but then if user needs backlight, the lock switch would act as a "light switch", turning the backlight "on" and still allow user to perform navigation/actions.
Thank You
I originally thought this was possible, but realized that although the lock switch does allow light to be turned "on" in the Settings, it still locks device which prevents any actions from being performed.
The idea of this setting would be that user can turn "off" the backlight and still be able to perform navigation/actions, but then if user needs backlight, the lock switch would act as a "light switch", turning the backlight "on" and still allow user to perform navigation/actions.
Thank You