This guide has been tested with openSUSE Tumbleweed x86_64. Please read it in full before you proceed to familiarize yourself with the build procedure.
Several other distributions have specific build guides and a general Linux build guide is also available.
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- Document conventions
- Get the source code
- Install the required packages
3.1. Build missing dependencies - Build Kodi
This guide assumes you are using terminal, also known as console, command-line or simply cli. Commands need to be run at the terminal, one at a time and in the provided order.
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Example: Clone Kodi's current master branch:
git clone https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc kodi
Commands that contain strings enclosed in angle brackets denote something you need to change to suit your needs.
git clone -b <branch-name> https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc kodi
Example: Clone Kodi's current Krypton branch:
git clone -b Krypton https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc kodi
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Make sure git is installed:
sudo zypper install git
Clone Kodi's current master branch:
cd $HOME
git clone https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc kodi
Add opensuse-multimedia-libs repository because some needed packages are non-OSS:
sudo zypper ar -f http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/multimedia:/libs/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ opensuse-multimedia-libs
sudo zypper ref
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If you get a package not found type of message with the below command, remove the offending package(s) from the install list and reissue the command. Take a note of the missing dependencies and, after a successful step completion, build the missing dependencies manually.
Note
Kodi requires a compiler with C++17 support, i.e. gcc >= 7 or clang >= 5
Install build dependencies:
sudo zypper install alsa-devel autoconf automake bluez-devel boost-devel capi4linux-devel ccache cmake doxygen flac-devel fribidi-devel fstrcmp-devel gcc gcc-c++ gettext-devel giflib-devel glew-devel googletest gperf java-openjdk libass-devel libavahi-devel libbluray-devel libbz2-devel libcap-devel libcap-ng-devel libcdio-devel libcec-devel libcurl-devel libdvdread-devel libgudev-1_0-devel libidn2-devel libjasper-devel libjpeg-devel liblcms2-devel libmad-devel libmicrohttpd-devel libmodplug-devel libmpeg2-devel libmysqlclient-devel libnfs-devel libogg-devel libpcap-devel libplist-devel libpng12-devel libpulse-devel libsamplerate-devel libsmbclient-devel libtag-devel libtiff-devel libtool libudev-devel libuuid-devel libva-devel libvdpau-devel libvorbis-devel libXrandr-devel libXrender-devel libxslt-devel lirc-devel lzo-devel make Mesa-libEGL-devel Mesa-libGLESv2-devel Mesa-libGLESv3-devel nasm patch pcre-devel python3-devel python3-Pillow randrproto-devel renderproto-devel shairplay-devel sqlite3-devel swig tinyxml-devel tinyxml2-devel
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Building for Wayland requires some extra packages:
sudo zypper install wayland-devel libwayland-egl1 libwayland-egl-devel libxkbcommon-devel scons wayland-protocols-devel
Similarly, building for GBM also requires some extra packages:
sudo zypper install libgbm-devel libinput-devel libxkbcommon-devel
Warning
Fedora repositories don't have install candidates for libfmt, rapidjson and waylandpp. See build missing dependencies manually section before you proceed.
Optional packages that you might want to install for extra functionality (generating doxygen documentation, for instance):
sudo zypper install doxygen sndio-devel libmariadb-devel
Note
For developers and anyone else who builds frequently it is recommended to install ccache to expedite subsequent builds of Kodi.
You can install it with:
sudo zypper install ccache
Tip
If you have multiple computers at home, distcc will distribute build workloads of C and C++ code across several machines on a network. Team Kodi may not be willing to give support if problems arise using such a build configuration.
You can install it with:
sudo zypper install distcc
See the general Linux build guide for reference.
Change to Kodi's source code directory:
cd $HOME/kodi
Build and install missing dependencies from repositories (flatbuffers, libfmt, rapidjson and waylandpp):
sudo make -C tools/depends/target/flatbuffers PREFIX=/usr/local
sudo make -C tools/depends/target/libfmt PREFIX=/usr/local
sudo make -C tools/depends/target/rapidjson PREFIX=/usr/local
sudo make -C tools/depends/target/waylandpp PREFIX=/usr/local
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See the general Linux build guide for reference.