Building Instructions

[jleightcap]

Hello!

I was looking to independently re-build the binaries available at http://23.163.0.39/bundles/inkbox/native/. Are there any available instructions for producing these images?

Thanks!

[tux-linux]

Hi, I don't have time right now, but maybe you can have a look at this : https://github.com/Kobo-InkBox/imgtool

[Szybet]

if you encounter init building problems, add:

INIT_GCC="/home/build/inkbox/kernel/toolchain/armv7l-linux-musleabihf-cross/bin/armv7l-linux-musleabihf-gcc" INIT_STRIP="/home/build/inkbox/kernel/toolchain/armv7l-linux-musleabihf-cross/bin/armv7l-linux-musleabihf-strip"

[hrdl-github]

Some additional notes on building the image for the n249 / Clara HD:

• libkobo.so.2 should be replaced by libkobo.so built from https://github.com/Quill-OS/qt5-kobo-platform-plugin/tree/master using https://github.com/Quill-OS/scripts. After setting up the latter said library can be built by running qos_qmake . && make -j1 and replacing the libkobo.so.2 in the rootfs.
• The podman/docker approach works well to accommodate for hard-coded paths
• Consider replacing the waveform file initrd/busybox-1.32.1/_install-n249/opt/firmware.sqsh
• The kernel repository should be checked out to /home/build/kernel due to a hard-coded path. Also checkout its submodules.
• kernel: remove the "input device hackery" in the checked-out inkbox-os-init repository
• In imgtool: sleep 1 after qemu-nbd --connect
• Before building kernel / image: install flex bison libssl-dev
• Make sure that all toolchain paths are correct. I ended up unifying all occurrences in imgtool: release.bash and kernel: scripts/build_kernel.sh (see previous comment)
• rootfs: restore release.sh deleted in Quill-OS/rootfs@f1003bc

[Szybet]

Thanks a lot for this overview