Help with setting up and running Elan's Precompiled XBMC

[gmackenz]

So I downloaded the precompiled binary and I thought I followed the suggestions correctly but I am getting the silly:

"The XBMC_HOME environment variable is not set.
Bus error"

I have the XBMC directory at ~/Desktop/XBMC

so in the system/profiles.xml I edited it:

<profiles>
<lastloaded>0</lastloaded>
<useloginscreen>false</useloginscreen>
<profile>
<name>Master user</name>
<directory>~/Desktop/XBMC//UserData</directory>
<thumbnail></thumbnail>
<lastdate></lastdate>
<useavpacksettings>false</useavpacksettings>
</profile>
</profiles>

And then in my ~/.profile I added a line for XBMC_HOME

XBMC_HOME=~/Desktop/XBMC

And I still XBMC crashes at what appears it trying to get the home directory:

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0

Thread 0 Crashed:
0 XBMC 0x00497a81 CUtil::GetHomePath(CStdStr<char>&) + 155

I am stumped (and I should try running experimental code late at night

[leigh_munro]

Mate i'm new to mac's only having owned mine for the past few weeks so my advice may not be 100% correct but this is all i did to get this build working.

First task was installing macports and all the required libs.

I then edited the .profile file in my home directory...the following line is all that i added.

export XBMC_HOME=/Users/Leigh/Desktop/XBMC

maybe the missing export is your issue, does it show when you type env in a terminal window?

After this i was able to run OSXBMC....

[CosyCat]

Mac newbie Warning

I downloaded xbmc from http://dn-0.com/xbmc-trac "XBMC-0.0.4.gz" and unpacked it(with a apps called The Unarchiver).
Now I have this file "XBMC-0.0.4" in my download folder
I downloaded and installd Macports in this location mac -> opt

My question is now how can I install libs into Macport
Where in terminal should I be when writing "$ sudo port install libcdio"

maby someone can write a guide howto install this or link me to one that a Mac newbie can understand.

thx

[gurkburk]

Maybe this can help a bit?

XbmcBuildInstructions

[CosyCat]

thx I will try that

[CosyCat]

i´ve done 1-4 http://dn-0.com/xbmc-trac/wiki/XbmcBuildInstructions

But this I can´t find.

"Finally, set an environment variable XBMC_HOME to point at your source directory."

Is this setting in Xcode

[CosyCat]

when I hit build I get 2errors
like this

error: GL/glew.h: No such file or directory

[leigh_munro]

Mate i was new to all this also...just stick with it you should figure it out soon enough...

with the setting of the home directory see my post above.

you need to edit (create if its not there) the .profile file in your home directory...the following line is all that i added. (you need to point it to you XBMC directory)

export XBMC_HOME=/Users/Leigh/Desktop/XBMC

once you get the XBMC_home set you should be good to go if you have all the required macports installed. If you are missing any you will be able to figure out what ones from the errors you get when you try and run XBMC.

you won't need to touch xcode if you have downloaded the pre compiled 0.0.4 version.

[petejo]

Originally Posted by gurkburk

Maybe this can help a bit?

XbmcBuildInstructions

I'm following this but I keep getting an unable to fetch libsdl error.

Seems it's not in that repository anymore ??

[leigh_munro]

If it helps the below are the macports ports that i have installed.
With these installed and the XBMC_Home set correctly i am able to run OSXBMC....


The following ports are currently installed:
expat @2.0.1_0 (active)
freetype @2.3.5_1 (active)
fribidi @0.10.7_0 (active)
gawk @3.1.6_0 (active)
gettext @0.17_3 (active)
glew @1.4.0_0 (active)
libcddb @1.1.0_0 (active)
libcdio @0.75_0 (active)
libiconv @1.12_0 (active)
lzo @1.08_0 (active)
lzo2 @2.02_2+darwin_9 (active)
ncurses @5.6_0 (active)
ncursesw @5.6_1 (active)
pkgconfig @0.22_0 (active)
readline @5.2.007_0+darwin_9 (active)
sqlite3 @3.5.4_0 (active)
zlib @1.2.3_1 (active)