I’ve covered this before, but the Kobo Reader sources have changed, so here’s an updated guide to installing and building them.
Create the directory structure:
cd mkdir kobo cd kobo mkdir fs mkdir tmp
Fetch the Kobo Reader sources:
git clone git clone git://github.com/kobolabs/Kobo-Reader.git KoboLabs
Set bash as your shell:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow dash # Choose "No"
Install the developer tools:
toolchains/gcc-codesourcery-2010q1-202.bin
If you’re on 64-bit, make sure you install the i386 versions of libc6 and any other missing libraries for the installer or the tools (e.g. libXext).
Make symbolic links to the toolchain under the names that qt’s build system is expecting. Otherwise you will get weird and difficult to diagnose errors:
cd ~/CodeSourcery/Sourcery_G++/bin for f in arm-none-linux-gnueabi-*; do n=$(echo $f|cut -b 24-); ln -s $f arm-linux-$n; done
Set required environment variables:
echo "export KOBOLABS=$HOME/kobo/KoboLabs" >> ~/.bashrc echo "export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/CodeSourcery/Sourcery_CodeBench_Lite_for_ARM_GNU_Linux/bin" >> .bashrc
Create the file build/build-config-user.sh with the following contents:
DEVICEROOT=$HOME/kobo/fs QT_EXTRA_ARGS="--prefix=$HOME/kobo/qt"
Modify the file build/scripts/qt.sh to refer to Qt 4.8.0 rather than 4.6.2, and when the build process complains remove any unrecognised configuration options.
Start the build:
cd ~/kobo/tmp ~/kobo/KoboLabs/build/build-all.sh
And then wait…
