How to compile for OpenELEC on rPi ?

[eimie1ba]

Hello,

I am new to OpenELEC but I have some experience with linux.

I am running OpenELEC on a rPi.
I would like to run aria2c (which is a cli downloading client like rtorrent) within an ssh session and manage it using screen or tmux.

As I understand how OpenELEC is working there are only two ways to do it :

# compile aria2c and screen from sources and use "OpenELEC" as target

Is that possible ?
If so:
- How do I "target" OpenELEC ? ;
- Can I just cross-compile against ARM and drop the build in my home and then run it from there ?
- Can I build things in a running OpenELEC environnement ?

# compile OpenELEC with aria2c and screen included

- Is it possible to add binaries to OpenELEC compiling process ?
- Is the building process for OpenELEC designed to handle additionnal sources and compile them to get binaries installed on the final result ?
- If so... how do I do that ?

Thanks for reading!
Sorry if I posted in the wrong section.

edit: forgot to mention I am using a rPi :]

[chewitt]

read this: http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php?title=...spberry_Pi

There are two ways to add your own software:

a) Create a build-system package for it.. there is a lot of prior art for other plugins and addons to crib from. This will be the long-term most repeatable and easiest to live with method for adding your own code to OpenELEC.

b) Place the binaries in projects/RPi/filesystem/path/to/file .. which will see it added to the SYSTEM file at /path/to/file .. this is fine if the file you need is more portable or less dependent on kernel versions etc.