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Set up development environment for Volumio images

Setting up a development environment for Volumio 2 images

We suggest to develop on a debian based environment

Install dependencies

git squashfs-tools kpartx multistrap qemu-user-static samba debootstrap parted dosfstools qemu binfmt-support qemu-utils

Set up development folder

  • clone the build repo on your local folder : git clone https://github.com/volumio/Build build
  • if on Ubuntu, you may need to remove $forceyes from line 989 of /usr/sbin/multistrap
  • cd to /build and type
./build.sh -b <architecture> -d <device> -v <version>

where switches are :

  • -b <arch> Build a full system image with Multistrap. Options for the target architecture are arm or x86.
  • -d <dev> Create Image for Specific Devices. Supported device names: pi, odroidc1/2/xu4/x2, udoo, cuboxi, bbb, cubietruck, compulab, x86
  • -l <repo> Create docker layer. Give a Docker Repository name as the argument.
  • -v <vers> Version

Example: Build a Raspberry PI image from scratch, version 2.0 :

./build.sh -b arm -d pi -v 2.0 -l reponame

You do not have to build the architecture and the image at the same time.

Example: Build the architecture for x86 first and the image version MyVersion in a second step:

./build.sh -b x86

./build.sh -d x86 -v MyVersion