Building madplay for WL500G Howto (Draft)

Prerequisites:

This Howto assumes a build environment of custom firmware 1.9.2.7-4 has been setup according to the instructions provided in Oleg's page of "ASUS WL-500g custom firmware page". It should also work for other versions, but it is not tested.

Download

File	Version	Download
madplay-0.15.2b.tar.gz	0.15.2b	http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12349
libid3tag-0.15.1b.tar.gz	0.15.1b	http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12349
libmad-0.15.1b.tar.gz	0.15.1b	http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12349
zlib-1.2.2.tar.gz	1.2.2	http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5624

Libraries preparation:
ASUS firmware build package do not come with all the libraries required by madplay, therefore it must build and install them by yourself.

Warning: Below instructions will install additional libraries under the toolchain's path.

Environment variable:

TOOLCHAIN_PATH=/opt/brcm/hndtools-mipsel-uclibc

(This environment variable is not really necessary in the build process. It is used to indicate the target installation path that passes to configure script.)

zlib:

tar zxf zlib-1.2.2.tar.gz

cd zlib-1.2.2

./configure --prefix=$TOOLCHAIN_PATH

make CC=mipsel-uclibc-gcc 2>&1 | tee build.log

make install

libid3tag:

tar zxf libid3tag-0.15.1b.tar.gz

cd libid3tag-0.15.1b

RANLIB=mipsel-uclibc-ranlib AR=mipsel-uclibc-ar CC=mipsel-uclibc-gcc ./configure --prefix=$TOOLCHAIN_PATH --enable-static --disable-shared --host=mips-linux

make 2>&1 | tee build.log

make install

libmad:

tar zxf libmad-0.15.1b.tar.gz

cd libmad-0.15.1b

RANLIB=mipsel-uclibc-ranlib AR=mipsel-uclibc-ar CC=mipsel-uclibc-gcc CXX=mipsel-uclibc-g++ ./configure --prefix=$TOOLCHAIN_PATH --enable-static --host=mips-linux --disable-shared

make 2>&1 | tee build.log

make install

madplay compilation:

After installed all the libraries provided above, you could now compile madplay:

tar zxf madplay-0.15.2b.tar.gz

cd madplay-0.15.2b

LIBS="-lm -lz" RANLIB=mipsel-uclibc-ranlib AR=mipsel-uclibc-ar CC=mipsel-uclibc-gcc CXX=mipsel-uclibc-g++ ./configure --prefix=$TOOLCHIAN_PATH --enable-static --host=mips-linux

make 2>&1 | tee build.log

If no error was found during the compilation, a binary file (`madplay`) should be created within the path of madplay-0.15.2b/ . As additional libraries like libmad and id3tag are linked statically, you could just install this single binary to your access point.