Compiling Plex

Hi Guys,
It's been many years since i did any coding and that was only at uni so not to a really high level if i'm honest with myself.

I'm a big plex user at home so thought i'd have a stab at compiling plex on the Pi with the intention of getting it working but also as a bit of a learning exercise.

I've downloaded it from git and begun the compilation but i'm getting stuck with it not being able to find certain files, on looking those files exist but it's not picking them up for some reason, the #include statements are pointing to the right paths presuming it's using the xbmc directory as the root. The typer of error is

pi@raspberrypi ~/code/plex-linux-old/xbmc/cores/playercorefactory $ make
/usr/bin/ccache arm-linux-gnueabihf-g++ -MD -c -fPIC -DPIC -D_REENTRANT -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DNDEBUG=1 -O2 -mfloat-abi=hard -mno-apcs-stack-check -Wa,-march=armv7a -mcpu=cortex-a8 -mfpu=neon -mvectorize-with-neon-quad -D_LINUX -D_FILE_DEFINED -D__STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS -DBIN_INSTALL_PATH="\"/usr/lib/xbmc\"" -DINSTALL_PATH="\"/usr/share/xbmc\"" -DHAS_SDL_2D -DMID -D'GIT_REV="a4d6ec9"' -D_ARMEL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -D_GNU_SOURCE=1 -D_REENTRANT -I/home/pi/code/plex-linux-old -I/usr/include/SDL -I/usr/include/alsa -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/fribidi -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/include/lzo -I/usr/include/mysql -I/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/dbus-1.0/include PlayerCoreFactory.cpp -o PlayerCoreFactory.o
PlayerCoreFactory.cpp:25:39: fatal error: cores/dvdplayer/DVDPlayer.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make: *** [PlayerCoreFactory.o] Error 1

I can crudley fix these by putting files in the same directory and modifying the include paths but that's not right so wondered if people had a more permenant way to fix it.

Thanks
Col

I can offer no assistance with this, but I too am a big Plex fan and so support your efforts sir!

Matthew

Did it bootstrap and configure properly? I've been trying to compile it as well, with little success.

Hi I could get it o bootstrap and compile with mods bu nit actually working. Some guys have taken a different Akers on it with a python plex app which wraps around omx player, sounds promising

http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/top ... e__st__120

I tried doing this on Gentoo linux.

I was able to get it compiling (i *highly* recommend using distcc + a cross compiling on a larger machine to save time), but it would segfault on launch. That was a few months ago.

I am going to revisit this, but in the meantime I am working on a simple python based player that uses iOS or android to control it (no gui, just a frontend server). You can take a look at https://github.com/dalehamel/pyplex.

It works for basic playback right now. I am working on stabilizing it so that I at least have some kind of plex on the RPi. Once it is stable I will attempt the plex-linux port again.

It should be possible, but we will have to backport the XBMC patches that enable arm building properly. We will also have to force it to use OMXPlayer to play everything, as that is the only GPU accelerated player for RPi.