Precompiled Linux (Debian Etch) Mipsel/Mips binaries

[skygunner]

[fabtar]

[Gregory]

Fabtar, could you please build latest MlDonkey (3.0.5) for mipsel? I've tried on NetworkedMediaTank (NMT) Egreat M34A. Your 3.0.2CVS works, but have problem with chat messages / user names in national language, fixed in 3.0.3.

Thank you in advance,
Gregory

[fabtar]

I have scheduled a new release for tomorrow eavining
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[Gregory]

Super! thank you in advance!

[Balamutick]

[fabtar]

Hi,
I have already explained the way I provide binaries in these threads a bunch of times, this is not a secret or mysterious alchemy but I'm happy to explain&share again.

I think in the late 2006 I have had hard times trying to cross compile mldonkey, then I have reminded about the QEMU emulator.
Years ago it was difficult to set up an emulated Linux Debian environment for ARM Eabi and PowerPC but luckly I won the battle.
After setting up few Linux VMs , I have simply compiled Ocaml inside them and I wrote few junky scripts in order to compile the cores.
The scripts simply applies the standard compilation guide .

Why haven't I released my VM images?
Because they are huge and in fact they are easily reproducible ( I have released a PowerPC DEbian ETCH image years ago on OSZoo, because it was the most difficult to set up).
The scripts suck a lot too, they are bounded to my current local network topology cause they retrieve data and put the obtained archives in network folders... so I have not seen a reason to release buggy and rough scripts.

Currently set up the VMs is very easy (the situation is highly improved) and you can simply google "aurelien jarno qemu images" and pick them, deploy them and start hacking ) .

It's quite strange you have not read about this in these release threads, I have pointed this "way" lots of times and suggested my IMHO best practice.

Regards

P.s: there are a bunch of details, like knowing Ocaml's limitation per architectures, particular problems per architecture, and trying to compile with the oldest glibc and trying to bundle all the extra libraries.
With libraries , anyone can reproduce (chrott) a little environment which reproduce the original one but usually this is not needed.

I have also promised to clean my images, improve my script and release them but I currently lack time but I'll surely do sometimes, in the future.

I'm uploading the cores just now
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ARM,ARMEL,MIPS,MIPSEL,POWERPC mldonkey cores: http://fabtar.ygrek.org.ua/

[fabtar]

For the first time... MIPS is out
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ARM,ARMEL,MIPS,MIPSEL,POWERPC mldonkey cores: http://fabtar.ygrek.org.ua/

[Balamutick]

[spiralvoice]

[enigmista]

Hi, I want to gime my feedback for AZBOX (a digital sat receiver) and for DM500.
For AZBOX i have used MIPSEL version, for DM500 PowerPC version: same problem: more CPU used so I can't use decoder for watching TV. For lower memory usage and low CPU usage I have read MLDonkey WIKI but without succes.
Best regards

[nospam75]

Version MIPSEL 3.0.5CVS worked on my WD TV Live media player. Setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH was necessary to make DNS work.

This is excellent, there was an alternative for mldonkey using optware which never worked.

Thanks fabtar.

[fabtar]

[fabtar]

[mldonkeynew]

Hi Fabtar...

When you have a little bit of time, could you compile a mipsel version of the latest mldonkey release (3.0.7)???

Thank you...


Grazie mille per la disponibilità