Comments on: Compiling Latest FireFly (mt-daapd) for ASUS WL-500W

By: fd0

fd0 — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:06:04 +0000

Is your version suitable for FreeBSD? I have been running svn-1696 for a very long time on Gentoo Linux. My migration to FreeBSD 8-Stable gives me a headache with firefly.

Thanks

By: Shantanu Goel

Shantanu Goel — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:46:21 +0000

Prashant, I haven’t used DD WRT much (especially for development) so can’t tell you much but maybe the issue is because of some uclibc/glibc issues Can you try to compile it from sources for your system?

By: Prashant

Prashant — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 01:23:47 +0000

Unfortunately when I run your binary in DD WRT, I get:
mt-daapd: can’t resolve symbol ‘__ctype_b_loc’

Any ideas if this is fixable?

By: Alfredo

Alfredo — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:04:02 +0000

Can anyone share the binary for nslu2 with me?

By: DM

DM — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:14:47 +0000

I did use the configure command as you described. I still had to uncomment the __Use_UNIX98 directive. After that it compiled OK, and I got firefly working (YAY!).

Nearly at the end: it crashes often (using the html management tool), and the bonjour service seems to be stopped, though ITunes finds the server. I’ll be looking into that. There might be some conflicts with old installations.
If I got it working smoothlessly, I’ll let it know.
Thanks again, Thimp

By: Andres

Andres — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:08:52 +0000

Firstly, thanks for sharing. I’ve tried several times to compile on OS X (Leopard and Snow Leopard) each time without success.

After running make a get error msgs such as these:

make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all’.
make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all-am’.
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all-am’.
Making all in contrib
make all-recursive
Making all in init.d
make all-am
make[5]: Nothing to be done for `all-am’.
make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all-am’.

Any insight on your part?

Thanks in advance

By: Shantanu Goel

Shantanu Goel — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:04:32 +0000

@Cary: There seems to be a bug in processing m3u files. I don’t use this option but when I tried yesterday it crashed on me too when scanning on startup. For now, you can probably disable this and try using through web interface..

By: Cary Lewis

Cary Lewis — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:50:49 +0000

I was able to build the mt-daapd, but it did not run correctly – it crashed processing the .m3u files.

By: Thimp

Thimp — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:56:37 +0000

@Cary Adding to the DB without scanning would be awsome, please keep us posted!
My firefly servers is up and running for a long time now, only the smartplaylist interface brings it to his knees. But I’ve not been able to digg further into that.
Regards Thimp

By: Cary Lewis

Cary Lewis — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:45:22 +0000

I am trying to compile this version of firefly on an dLink DNS-323 with ffp 0.5 installed.

I had to manually edit /ffp/include/features.h and comment out the #undef __USE_UNIX98 line, and then specify CPPFLAGS=”-D__USE_UNIX98″ on the configure line.

BTW the notes above say CPFLAGS, I think you meant CPPFLAGS.

Anyway, I hope to modify the source to use the file change notification subsystem to add new files into the DB without having to do a scan.