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johndoe2000

2009-01-23, 13:59

Is there a chance that we will see xbmc for opensolaris?

spiff

2009-01-23, 14:00

there is always a chance. get it compiling and send patches

wonslung

2009-07-09, 04:51

I would love to see this as well. I recently started using opensolaris and overall it's great. It's still missing some stuff but the major stuff is there and it's a pretty easy os to learn if you are familar with Linux or BSD. I'm sorry to revive such an old thread but seeing as i was going to ask the same question i figured it would be better to just reply to this one.

I've had success compiling XBMC from source on linux and cross-compiling it for xbox but all the tools/patches are made freely available. I do not believe i have the skill to tackle something like this. I'd really love to see it happen though, my system running opensolaris has much lower load and seems much more responsive than the same system running Ubuntu. I was running FreeBSD but seeing as there is no 64 bit flash or nvidia driver i thought i'd give Opensolaris a try. Things are smooth, i think this would be a nice platform.

wonslung

2009-07-15, 13:25

I'm sure this is a stupid question but what EXACTLY is the dependency list for XBMC? I'd like to get it working on either FreeBSD or OpenSolaris.

my main reason is because i'm in love with ZFS and also my systems tend to run at lower load with either of those os's

thanks for any help.

The-Boxhead

2009-07-15, 15:27

Im no expert but Solaris does not support OpenGL 3.0 ?

spiff

2009-07-15, 18:07

An up-to-date dependency list is more or less given in the README.linux text file available in the SVN:

http://xbmc.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xbmc/branches/linuxport/XBMC/README.linux

XBMC do not rely on OpenGL 3.0 at all. Currently XBMC only requires OpenGL 1.3 with GLSL and ARB Shaders support, which should definitely be supported on BSD at least.

wonslung

2009-07-17, 08:31

ok, i'm going to TRY getting the dependencies on opensolaris first, if i run into any issues i'll post them here.

thanks again.

and just so you know, opensolaris DOES support opengl 3.0 via the nvidia driver since opensolaris b109 and Nvidia 180.29

i have b111 and Nvidia 180.44

wonslung

2009-07-17, 08:58

the main reason i originally asked about the needed dependencies is because when i read the readme for linux and the readme for osx i noticed they didn't seem to match up all the way so i assumed that maybe some of the stuff wasn't 100% required.

davilla

2009-07-17, 18:00