Before you can build Tvheadend you will need several packages installed on your development machine.
The specific details will vary between distributions so we only cover the major ones here.
Debian/Ubuntu
$ sudo aptitude install build-essential git pkg-config libssl-dev bzip2 wget
Optional:
$ sudo aptitude install libavahi-client-dev zlib1g-dev libavcodec-dev libavutil-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev libavresample-dev
Redhat / Centos / Fedora
Redhat/Centos/Fedora Build assumptions
Redhat/Centos/Fedora are a package managed OS and as such tvheadend should be installed from an rpm on a production system. But you may run tvheadend from the build tree, of course.
sudo yum groups install "C Development Tools and Libraries" sudo yum install zlib-devel avahi-devel dbus-devel openssl-devel python
Gentoo
TODO: this needs adding
Get Source
Next you must obtain the source code, this is hosted on github.
To clone the repository simple run the command:
$ git clone https://github.com/tvheadend/tvheadend.git
Configuring
TVHeadend comes with a configuration script that allows you to enable/disable optional components and set install paths, etc.
Most people will be fine with the defaults and can run:
$ ./configure
However for more advanced options, please run the following:
$ ./configure --help
And then re-run configure with the required options, i.e.:
$ ./configure --disable-dvbscan
Compiling
To compile Tvheadend run:
$ make
Installing
It is possible to install Tvheadend using make, based on the ./configure options, by running:
$ sudo make install
However it’s recommend that you run from the build directory for development/testing (seeDevelopment):
$ ./build.linux/tvheadend
NOTE: its VERY important you run test builds from git root, so command should look similar to above.
And that you build a package if you wish to install Tvheadend permanently and hook into the system start scripts etc.
Use of make install is not very traceable and so removal can sometimes be painful, and it might overwrite an existing installation.
Packaging
For more information about packaging Tvheadend please see here
Reporting Problems
If you have problems with a custom compiled version of Tvheadend its important that any issue reports include details of the specific version of source you used. For more details please see here.