Archive:HOW-TO:Compile XBMC for Xbox

Checking Out SVN

Prerequisites

• Microsoft Windows XP operating-system installed on an x86-based computer.
• Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2003 or Visual Studio .NET 2003(Compiler and IDE) Note: VC/VS 2005 or later is not compatible with the XDK. Also note that XBMC is not coded in C++ (and not in a .NET programming-language as the names of these Visual Studio versions might indicate).
• DirectX 9.0 SDK Update (Summer 2004)
• Microsoft Xbox Software Development Kit (a.k.a. XDK) Note: If you installed Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio (or otherwise modified the installed files), you need to run the XDK setup with the /s flag.
• TortoiseSVN (or a other SVN client of your choosing if you prefer).

Getting the Source Code

Using TortoiseSVN

If you have TortoiseSVN, you can skip the first two steps.

• Get TortoiseSVN installer from the TortoiseSVN site
• Install TortoiseSVN
• Right click in a directory and click "SVN Checkout"
• Enter URL of repository: https://xbmc.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/xbmc/trunk/XBMC in the dialogue window. (Note this will only download main XBMC trunk. If you also want source documentation and mplayer source, omit the last "/XBMC")

• Click ok and wait for all the source tree to download. (Expect a 250-300 MB download the first time you checkout!)

Building XBMC

Build.bat

Building with build.bat is a very simple process

• Double click on build.bat to run the automated build process
• The process will create a BUILD directory with your new XBMC build inside

xbmc.sln

This is the way of just building default.xbe, which is only recomended for advanced users who are debugging problems.

• Open up the xbmc.sln file with Visual C++ 2003
• Select Release or Debug from the Build Manager
• Compile, and wait
• Depending on if you selected Release or Debug, the default.xbe would be in that sub directory.