Bennor
October 26, 2020, 7:10pm
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The forum search feature (magnifying glass icon upper right) brings up some past discussion on the subject.
https://community.wd.com/search?q=GPL%20category%3A105
IT’S MY MISTAKE…
After cleaning everything all, my building process was successfully…
Best regards…
Thanks for your guide, Fox_exe…
Compared to the previous gen1, it’s too hard to build a package from scratch…
At first, I downloaded the GPL Source Code having same version for my device(v2.21.119).
I installed Debian v8.7.1 32bit in my virtual box, and then built the cross-compile environment…
As a test, I compiled an rsync program that seems to be the simplest,…
UPDATE: see guide on page 2 of this thread ( direct link ).
After crashing myself against the impossibility to install standard Debian packages as well as Optware (see my previous post) on My Cloud with firmware version 4.x, I downloaded the GPL source code from the WD website and learnt more about the 64K pages thing.
I don’t have the knowledge to say whether switching to 64K pages memory is a good thing or not (apart from the fact that breaks all standard packages), anyway I was wondering wh…
It’s here: “.\gpl-source-sequoia-04.00.00-607\packages\build_tools\debian\build-armhf-package.sh”
Thank you for your answer.
I have allready downloaded the latest GPL source “gpl-source-sequoia-04.01.01-413.zip”, but you got me confused my friend.
What do I need the GPL for? From what I understand you propose to compile directly on the MyCloud. How do I do that from source files? What easy-to-use script you refer to? And what is this ‘screen’ app you mentioned? I need more info and details please and if possible a guide.
Note: There is a difference between the first gen v3.x/v4.x firmware and the second gen v2.x firmware so bear that in mind when looking at how people built firmware for the first gen My Cloud’s.