VIP44x2 Files

Notice
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This is the source code distribution for open source with redistribution
obligations that has been used in the Mediaroom TV2 solution.

This distribution covers the VIP44X2 and VIP56X2 set-top boxes.

Installing required external build tools on Ubuntu system
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Install tools such as Quilt, GNU make, GCC, and Python (2.6 or 2.7), available
as optional packages in Ubuntu distributions.

On newly installed system, the /bin/sh may be symbolically linked to dash.
Change it to bash using the following command.

 $ sudo ln -sf /bin/bash /bin/sh

The followings software packages are required.
The toolchain are 32-bit binaries, as such, when building on a 64-bit system,
the 32-bit version supporting packages are needed.
This list is not exhaustive due to local system setup.

perl v5.18.2 or newer
quilt 0.61 or newer
libxml-dom.per
libxml2-dev
libxml2-utils
lzop
bison
flex
doxygen
gettext
lzma
gperf
libtool
automake
gawk
pkg-config/pkgconf
binutils 2.20 or later
texinfo 4.5 or later
cmake 2.8.12.2 or later
gcc-multilib
g++multilib
zlib1g

Untar open source packages & build them
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Untar the redistribe source code file and goto that directory, <ossk-dir>.
Run "build.sh vip44x2" or "build.sh vip56x2" script. 
The script will setup toolchain, unpack, and build individual package for the
specified target, vip44x2 or vip56x2.
Executables and config/setup files are installed into <ossk-dir>/bin.
Include files are installed into <ossk-dir>/include.
Library files are installed into <ossk-dir>/lib.

 $ cd <ossk-dir>
 $ ./build.sh vip44x2
 or
 $ ./build.sh vip56x2