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Build Instructions
Shaka Packager supports building on Windows, Mac and Linux host systems.
Linux build dependencies
Most development is done on Ubuntu (currently 14.04, Trusty Tahr). The dependencies mentioned here are only for Ubuntu. There are some instructions for other distros below.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y \
curl \
libc-ares-dev \
build-essential git python python3
Note that Git
must be v1.7.5 or above.
Mac system requirements
-
Xcode 7.3+.
-
The OS X 10.10 SDK or later. Run
ls `xcode-select -p`/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs
to check whether you have it.
-
Note that there is a known problem with 10.15 SDK or later right now. You can workaround it by using 10.14 SDK. See #660 for details.
Windows system requirements
- Visual Studio 2015 Update 3, 2017, or 2019. (See below.)
- Windows 7 or newer.
Install Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 or later - Community Edition should work if its license is appropriate for you. Use the Custom Install option and select:
- Visual C++, which will select three sub-categories including MFC
- Universal Windows Apps Development Tools > Tools (1.4.1) and Windows 10 SDK (10.0.14393)
If using VS 2017 or VS 2019, you must set the following environment variables, with versions and paths adjusted to match your actual system:
GYP_MSVS_VERSION="2019"
GYP_MSVS_OVERRIDE_PATH="C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/Community"
Install depot_tools
Linux and Mac
Clone the depot_tools
repository from Chromium:
git clone https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/tools/depot_tools.git
Add depot_tools
to the end of your PATH (you will probably want to put this
in your ~/.bashrc
or ~/.zshrc
). Assuming you cloned depot_tools
to
/path/to/depot_tools
:
export PATH="$PATH:/path/to/depot_tools"
Windows
Download the depot_tools bundle and extract it somewhere.
WARNING: DO NOT use drag-n-drop or copy-n-paste extract from Explorer, this will not extract the hidden “.git” folder which is necessary for depot_tools to autoupdate itself. You can use “Extract all…” from the context menu though.
Add depot_tools to the start of your PATH (must be ahead of any installs of Python). Assuming you unzipped the bundle to C:\src\depot_tools, open:
Control Panel → System and Security → System → Advanced system settings
If you have Administrator access, Modify the PATH system variable and
put C:\src\depot_tools
at the front (or at least in front of any directory
that might already have a copy of Python or Git).
If you don't have Administrator access, you can add a user-level PATH
environment variable and put C:\src\depot_tools
at the front, but
if your system PATH has a Python in it, you will be out of luck.
From a cmd.exe shell, run the command gclient (without arguments). On first run, gclient will install all the Windows-specific bits needed to work with the code, including msysgit and python.
- If you run gclient from a non-cmd shell (e.g., cygwin, PowerShell), it may appear to run properly, but msysgit, python, and other tools may not get installed correctly.
- If you see strange errors with the file system on the first run of gclient, you may want to disable Windows Indexing.
Get the code
Create a shaka_packager
directory for the checkout and change to it (you can
call this whatever you like and put it wherever you like, as long as the full
path has no spaces):
mkdir shaka_packager && cd shaka_packager
Run the gclient
tool from depot_tools
to check out the code and its
dependencies.
gclient config https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-packager.git --name=src --unmanaged
gclient sync
To sync to a particular commit or version, add the '-r <revision>' flag to
gclient sync
, e.g.
gclient sync -r 4cb5326355e1559d60b46167740e04624d0d2f51
gclient sync -r v1.2.0
If you don't want the full repo history, you can save some time by adding the
--no-history
flag to gclient sync
.
When the above commands completes, it will have created a hidden .gclient
file
and a directory called src
in the working directory. The remaining
instructions assume you have switched to the src
directory:
cd src
Build Shaka Packager
Linux and Mac
Shaka Packager uses Ninja as its main build tool, which is bundled in depot_tools.
To build the code, run ninja
command:
ninja -C out/Release
If you want to build debug code, replace Release
above with Debug
.
We also provide a mechanism to change build settings, for example,
you can change build system to make
by overriding GYP_GENERATORS
:
GYP_GENERATORS='make' gclient runhooks
Windows
The instructions are similar, except that Windows allows using either /
or \
as path separator:
ninja -C out/Release
ninja -C out\Release
Also, unlike Linux / Mac, 32-bit is chosen by default even if the system is
64-bit. 64-bit has to be enabled explicitly and the output directory is
configured to out/%CONFIGURATION%_x64
, i.e.:
SET GYP_DEFINES='target_arch=x64'
gclient runhooks
ninja -C out/Release_x64
Build artifacts
After a successful build, you can find build artifacts including the main
packager
binary in build output directory (out/Release
or out/Release_x64
for release build).
See Shaka Packager Documentation
on how to use Shaka Packager
.
Update your checkout
To update an existing checkout, you can run
git pull origin main --rebase
gclient sync
The first command updates the primary Packager source repository and rebases on
top of tip-of-tree (aka the Git branch origin/main
). You can also use other
common Git commands to update the repo.
The second command syncs dependencies to the appropriate versions and re-runs hooks as needed.
Cross compiling for ARM on Ubuntu host
The install-build-deps script can be used to install all the compiler and library dependencies directly from Ubuntu:
./packager/build/install-build-deps.sh
Install sysroot image and others using gclient
:
GYP_CROSSCOMPILE=1 GYP_DEFINES="target_arch=arm" gclient runhooks
The build command is the same as in Ubuntu:
ninja -C out/Release
Notes for other linux distros
Alpine Linux
Use apk
command to install dependencies:
apk add --no-cache \
bash curl \
bsd-compat-headers c-ares-dev linux-headers \
build-base git ninja python2 python3
Alpine uses musl which does not have mallinfo defined in malloc.h. It is required by one of Shaka Packager's dependency. To workaround the problem, a dummy structure has to be defined in /usr/include/malloc.h, e.g.
sed -i \
'/malloc_usable_size/a \\nstruct mallinfo {\n int arena;\n int hblkhd;\n int uordblks;\n};' \
/usr/include/malloc.h
We also need to enable musl in the build config:
export GYP_DEFINES='musl=1'
Arch Linux
Instead of running sudo apt-get install
to install build dependencies, run:
sudo pacman -Sy --needed \
core/which \
c-ares \
gcc git python2 python3
Debian
Same as Ubuntu.
Fedora
Instead of running sudo apt-get install
to install build dependencies, run:
su -c 'yum install -y \
which \
c-ares-devel libatomic \
gcc-c++ git python2'
CentOS
Same as Fedora.
OpenSUSE
Use zypper
command to install dependencies:
sudo zypper in -y \
curl which \
c-ares-devel \
gcc-c++ git python python3
Tips, tricks, and troubleshooting
Xcode license agreement
If you are getting the error
Agreeing to the Xcode/iOS license requires admin privileges, please re-run as root via sudo.
the Xcode license has not been accepted yet which (contrary to the message) any user can do by running:
xcodebuild -license
Only accepting for all users of the machine requires root:
sudo xcodebuild -license
Missing curl CA bundle
If you are getting the error
gyp: Call to 'config/mac/find_curl_ca_bundle.sh' returned exit status 1 ...
curl CA bundle is not able to be located. Installing curl with openssl should resolve the issue:
brew install curl --with-openssl
Using an IDE
No specific instructions are available.
You might find Gyp generators helpful. Output is not guaranteed to work. Manual editing might be necessary.
To generate CMakeLists.txt in out/Release and out/Debug use:
GYP_GENERATORS=cmake gclient runhooks
To generate IDE project files in out/Release and out/Debug use:
GYP_GENERATORS=eclipse gclient runhooks
GYP_GENERATORS=xcode gclient runhooks
GYP_GENERATORS=xcode_test gclient runhooks
GYP_GENERATORS=msvs gclient runhooks
GYP_GENERATORS=msvs_test gclient runhooks
Contributing
If you have improvements or fixes, we would love to have your contributions. See https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-packager/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md for details.
We have continue integration tests setup on pull requests. You can also verify locally by running the tests manually.
If you know which tests are affected by your change, you can limit which tests
are run using the --gtest_filter
arg, e.g.:
out/Debug/mp4_unittest --gtest_filter="MP4MediaParserTest.*"
You can find out more about GoogleTest at its GitHub page.