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Linux Setup

You can find information on linux setup on the following page linux Setup

Build Kodi

Linux

Set root directory

export KODI_ROOT=$HOME/dev

Make sure git is installed

sudo apt install git

Change to your home directory

cd $KODI_ROOT

Clone Kodi's current master branch

git clone https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc kodi

Add Kodi's nightly PPA to grab dependencies

sudo add-apt-repository -s ppa:team-xbmc/xbmc-nightly

Super-duper magic command to get the build dependencies

sudo apt build-dep kodi

You can install ccache (optional)

sudo apt install ccache

Create an out-of-source build directory

mkdir $KODI_ROOT/kodi-build

Change to build directory

cd $KODI_ROOT/kodi-build

Configure build for X11

cmake ../kodi -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local

Build Kodi

cmake --build . -- VERBOSE=1 -j$(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN)

Build all add-ons

cd $/KODI_ROOTkodi
sudo make -j$(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) -C tools/depends/target/binary-addons PREFIX=/usr/local

Android

Get SDK and NDK
[NDK]
[SDK]

Set root directory

export KODI_ROOT=$HOME/dev

Unzip software

mkdir -p $KODI_ROOT/android-tools/android-sdk-linux
unzip $KODI_ROOT/Downloads/sdk-tools-linux-4333796.zip -d $KODI_ROOT/android-tools/android-sdk-linux
unzip $KODI_ROOT/Downloads/android-ndk-r18b-linux-x86_64.zip -d $KODI_ROOT/android-tools

Accept Licenses

cd $KODI_ROOT/android-tools/android-sdk-linux/tools/bin
./sdkmanager --licenses
./sdkmanager platform-tools
./sdkmanager "platforms;android-26"
./sdkmanager "build-tools;25.0.3"

Change to Android NDK tools directory

cd $KODI_ROOT/android-tools/android-ndk-r18b/build/tools

Set up toolchain

./make-standalone-toolchain.sh --install-dir=$KODI_ROOT/android-tools/arm-linux-androideabi-vanilla/android-21 --platform=android-21 --toolchain=arm-linux-androideabi

Create a key to sign

keytool -genkey -keystore ~/.android/debug.keystore -v -alias androiddebugkey -dname "CN=Android Debug,O=Android,C=US" -keypass android -storepass android -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 10000

Clone Kodi's current master branch

cd $KODI_ROOT
git clone https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc kodi

Prepare to configure build

cd $KODI_ROOT/kodi/tools/depends
./bootstrap

Configure build for arm

./configure --with-tarballs=$KODI_ROOT/android-tools/xbmc-tarballs --host=arm-linux-androideabi --with-sdk-path=$KODI_ROOT/android-tools/android-sdk-linux --with-ndk-path=$KODI_ROOT/android-tools/android-ndk-r18b --with-toolchain=$KODI_ROOT/android-tools/arm-linux-androideabi-vanilla/android-21 --prefix=$KODI_ROOT/android-tools/xbmc-depends

Build tools and dependencies

make -j$(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN)

Build all add-ons
cd $KODI_ROOT/kodi

make -j$(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) -C tools/depends/target/binary-addons

Build Kodi
Configure CMake build:

cd $KODI_ROOT/kodi
make -C tools/depends/target/cmakebuildsys

Build Kodi

cd $KODI_ROOT/kodi/build
make -j$(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN)

Create package

make apk

Programming

Powershell

You can find information on powershell on the following page powershell

Kotlin

You can find information on kotlin on the following page kotlin

Useful cli commands

You can find a list of these on the following page cli favourites

Windows Tips

Disabling public network for hyper-V

Start a secpol.msc
Under Netork List Manager, change the relevant Network name to private

This was an error when setting up winrm using winrm quickconfig

Powershell

To search for text in a file use

 ls * -r | Select-String -simplematch -pattern "mysearchstring" | select -u -exp filename

bibbleMP

You can find information on bibbleMP on the following page bibble Media Player

Recipes

You can find some save recipes on the following page Iain's Recipe Page