Compiler available?

An emulator would definitely be nice, but I don't know how realistic that is from Roku's perspective. The web page upload process can definitely be tedious, but this "tool" that one of the other developers put together makes it a lot less painful... viewtopic.php?f=34&t=30032

"TheEndless" wrote:
The web page upload process can definitely be tedious, but this "tool" that one of the other developers put together makes it a lot less painful... viewtopic.php?f=34&t=30032

You can also avoid the web interface almost completely using the makefile included with some of the example code. It can be tweaked pretty easily to work with a given project. The only time I ever use the web interface is when I need to re-key my box and even that could probably be incorporated into a makefile if I took the time to figure it out.

"nowhereman" wrote:

"TheEndless" wrote:
The web page upload process can definitely be tedious, but this "tool" that one of the other developers put together makes it a lot less painful... viewtopic.php?f=34&t=30032

You can also avoid the web interface almost completely using the makefile included with some of the example code. It can be tweaked pretty easily to work with a given project. The only time I ever use the web interface is when I need to re-key my box and even that could probably be incorporated into a makefile if I took the time to figure it out.

I was under the impression that the makefile was intended for linux environments, and I haven't been able to find any documentation about how to use them with the Roku beyond the limited comments in the makefiles for the SDK samples. Can they be used in a Windows dev environment?

"TheEndless" wrote:
I was under the impression that the makefile was intended for linux environments, and I haven't been able to find any documentation about how to use them with the Roku beyond the limited comments in the makefiles for the SDK samples. Can they be used in a Windows dev environment?

Make originated on UNIX and I develop either on a Mac or a Ubuntu machine, but googling for "Windows Make" turns up several promising results, so it's almost certainly possible.

Thanks for the quick responses, i'll check out the link and the makefiles. I'm on a mac so that works for me!

I use the makefiles on windows all the time with the help of cygwin http://sourceware.redhat.com/cygwin/

--Kevin

Does anybody have a link to instruction to use Cygwin. I am using Windows 7 and would like to find a "faster" way to test my app on the Roku, then Zipping and uploading.

THANKS

"bbakernc" wrote:
Does anybody have a link to instruction to use Cygwin. I am using Windows 7 and would like to find a "faster" way to test my app on the Roku, then Zipping and uploading.

THANKS

I'm using 7zip and curl on win7 with the following:

"c:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" u %1.zip %1\*
curl -s -S -F "archive=@%1.zip" -F "mysubmit=Replace" -F "passwd=" http://ROKU_IP/plugin_install
pause

I put this in a batch script and then put that into the sendto menu (C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo) and then I can just right click on the root directory(the folder containing the manifest) of the project and then "Send To...>Roku.cmd". You'll get a cmd window popup that will be paused at the end of the script. If everything worked you'll see an html response from the Roku with a message 'xxx bytes stored' near the bottom. If you try to upload the same source twice you get a message like "Application Received: Identical to previous version -- not restarting.".

Instead of the sendto menu, this could be modified to work from an IDE or programmer's text editor, if they support calling external programs with the parameters. Just be sure to point the zip program to the right directory level (so manifest is at the top level of the zip).

"bbakernc" wrote:
Does anybody have a link to instruction to use Cygwin. I am using Windows 7 and would like to find a "faster" way to test my app on the Roku, then Zipping and uploading.

You can download cygwin from cygwin.com. However this doesn't avoid the zipping and uploading process. It just allows you to do it via a Makefile.

--Mark

This is GREAT....

But... I am having an issue

It looks like CURL cant find the Roku box. Here is the CMD

C:\OLD drive\Roku\examples\source>"c:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" u "C:\OLD
drive\Roku\examples\source\simplevideoplayer".zip "C:\OLD E drive\Roku\examples\
source\simplevideoplayer"\*

7-Zip [64] 9.20 Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov 2010-11-18

Scanning

Updating archive C:\OLD drive\Roku\examples\source\simplevideoplayer.zip


Everything is Ok

C:\OLD drive\Roku\examples\source>c:\curl -s -S -F "archive=@"C:\OLD drive\R
oku\examples\source\simplevideoplayer".zip" -F "mysubmit=Replace" -F "passwd=" h
ttp://ROKU_IP/plugin_install
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: E; Host not found
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: drive\Roku\examples\source\simplevideoplayer.z
ip; Host not found
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: ROKU_IP; Host not found

C:\OLD drive\Roku\examples\source>pause
Press any key to continue . . .

I can use ie at http://192.168.1.101 and get to the Player.