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Connect external monitors to your system via Wifi-Display specification also known as Miracast
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Support of OpenRC #242

Closed archenroot closed 2 years ago

archenroot commented 7 years ago

Hi buddy,

I opened here discussion on Gentoo forum along with the request: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=8139088#8139088

There is some response already about not being it easy task, if you can provide some hints yourself, I think it will help.

I mean I will create package for Gentoo anyway, but this will be limited to SystemD which I myself don't use, but I have no problem with create virtual machine for SystemD ebuild development only..

Thanks again for cooperation or possible help

albfan commented 6 years ago

I'm waiting for reply to join to the gentoo forum, meanwhile I think you can start a repo with workflow to package for gentoo and we can collaborate there, sounds good?

GavinDarkglider commented 6 years ago

I agree, it would be nice to see this work with OpenRC. Personally dont like SystemD, and would love to have this working with openrc. Ebuilds are fairly easy to write, so if you need help there, I can help you out.

albfan commented 6 years ago

@GavinDarkglider feel free to start something and link here. I don't know what an ebuild is

See there's nothing ready without systemd at this time (there's just an unmaintained library for miracast which someone needs to review)

GavinDarkglider commented 6 years ago

Ebuilds are like scripts that are used by portage(The package manager in gentoo based distributions) to download, patch, compile, and install packages. They are fairly easy to write, first you define use flags, which are Boolean variables that can be set for each package, to use specific libraries, or enable or disable features. eg, if open rc and systemd are supported, you dont want it building for both, so that would be how you set that. You also tell it what dependencies are required to run, and build. These can be set by use flags as well. then you tell it where to download the source for the version, tell it to apply patches, and then build and install. There is a structure defined for this, but this is the gist of an ebuild. Since I dont use systemd, anything I build will try to install it, or it will fail installation, so it will be impossible for me to test, but I can put together the basics, so you get the idea.

albfan commented 6 years ago

Ok, sounds like a PKGBUILD for arch linux. @GavinDarkglider link here a repo (miraclecast-ebuild or similar)

@archenroot says something about a VM, will be that a qemu?

akhuettel commented 5 years ago

Packaging this for gentoo is not so complicated in principle, I'll try over the next days. My only problem is that I dont have systemd... will try to get along with openrc/udev/elogind and see what happens.

akhuettel commented 5 years ago

@albfan I got 1.0 to build on openrc, see https://github.com/akhuettel/miraclecast/tree/openrc-v1.0

So far I havent managed to run it yet, but that's most likely because my wpa_supplicant is missing some features; no time to investigate yet.

How stable is master, does it make sense for me to port my changes there and prepare a pull request?

albfan commented 5 years ago

Will check it and get to you back soon. Everything in master are fixes and improvements, no unstable features. I want to make a release when we don't have to shutdown normal wifi

albfan commented 2 years ago

@akhuettel I squash your openrc branch and looks ok to me. Will add ENABLE_SYSTEMD to meson and autotools and merge.

you will be properly credited.