Archive:HOW-TO:Compile XBMC for Xbox

Checking Out CVS

Prerequisites

• Microsoft Visual C++ 2003 (Compiler and IDE)
• Microsoft XDK (XBox Development Kit)
• TortoiseCVS

Getting Source

Using TortoiseCVS

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

• Get TortoiseCVS installer from the TortoiseCVS site
• Install TortoiseCVS
• Right click in a directory and click "CVS Checkout" and it will present this screen

• Fill in the CVSROOT with ":pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot/xbmc" which will automaticaly fill in several of the other box's for you.
• Fill in the Module with "XBMC" which will give you a box that looks like:

• Click ok and wait for all the source tree to download

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.