How-to: Compile mt-daapd for your Roku/Pinnacle soundbridge

[mumsoft]

Note: this is a draft version. Please respond with your advice.

What I did to compile mt-daapd

Prerequisite: firmware of KCFurge installed. Updated all my packages, installed package optware-devel
Sollie mentioned he had to update buildroot:

ipkg install -force-overwrite buildroot

Download mt-daapd-svn-1586.tar.gz from http://www.fireflymediaserver.org/
Put it somewhere you can reach it within the WL-700gE. I putted mine in my home-dir.
Currently (22-1-2008) the newest one is release 1696, which I took.

telnet asus
sudo bash

It is vital to run configure as root, so sudo bash is needed.

On the command line, and in your .profile, add this:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/lib:/shares/lib"
PATH_SEPARATOR=:
CONFIG_SHELL=/opt/bin/bash
AWK=/opt/bin/gawk
export PATH_SEPARATOR CONFIG_SHELL AWK LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Do this with joe .profile
(I love joe as editor, it has wordstar-like commands, and these still stick in my fingers from the 80´s. You may love nano or vi, or don't know what)


Run:

tar -xvzf mt-daapd-svn-xxxx.tar.gz

to 'unzip' this

cd mt*

It's needed to change the first line of configure from "#!/bin/sh" to "#!/opt/bin/bash"
Do this with joe configure

Now, try

./configure --prefix=/opt --enable-sqlite3 --enable-oggvorbis --enable-flac

You may need other --enable options, but these are for ogg/vorbis and flac support. Have a look in the configure file for more.
If it runs without errors you are as lucky as I was.

Then, give make supreme command:

make

After that make sure you have removed the old mt-daapd that you may have installed:
Maybe you like to keep your old mt-daapd.conf, do so first, but keep in mind that newer mt-daapds need newer config files.

ipkg remove mt-daapd

There might be an install-sh script for which you need to change the first line from "#!/bin/sh" to "#!/opt/bin/bash"
Now run

make install

Most likely you need to reconfigure mt-daapd.conf. There is an up-to-date template in mt-daapd-svn-9999/contrib. 9999 is your buildnumber, say 1696. Use that as a start.


To start mt-daapd at bootup, at this to your rc.local:

if [ -x /opt/sbin/mt-daapd ]; then
/opt/sbin/mt-daapd -c /opt/etc/mt-daapd/mt-daapd.conf
fi

Of course, disable the antique mt-daapd the Asus provides:
in the beginning of your rc.local:

# Sleep for a little bit to not interfere with normal system startup
# before we kill a bunch of Asus processes.
sleep 5

# Stop Asus mt-daapd
killall -q mt-daapd &

Also, disable the Media Server in the webinterface of the Asus.

If you don't let mt-daapd run as root, give the account you gave to mt-daapd the correct rights: for instance Sollie had to use this command, to have write permission:

chown guest /opt/var/mt-daapd

if you need a more extended buglevel, add -dx after the line, with x=1,2,...,9
I.E:
/opt/sbin/mt-daapd -c /opt/etc/mt-daapd/mt-daapd.conf -d5

You can reach the web interface with http://asus:3689/index.html where 'asus' is the hostname or the ip address of your NAS

To allow transcoding for flac and ogg to work, change the first line of /opt/sbin/mt-daapd-ssc.sh
to
#!/opt/bin/bash

If your ogg files produce noise only, proceed. If not, be happy.
With package ivorbis-tools (1.0-6) the ogg-files are transcoded the big-endian way, that should be the little-endian way. Result is noise.
If you have this problem, try this: download the attached oggdec.bin.zip. Unzip this and copy oggdec.bin as oggdec to /opt/bin/oggdec. It will overwrite what you got from your ivorbis-package.
Make sure it is executable:

chmod +x /opt/bin/oggdec